Quotes about Morality
I immediately regretted that last point because I have discovered that in discussions it never helps to take a morally superior tone to one's opponent.
- Nelson Mandela
Character is how you treat people when they can do nothing for you.
- Nelson Mandela
What's the point of doing something good if nobody's watching?
- Nicole Kidman
We must fight their falsehood with our truth, but we must also fight the falsehood in our truth.
- H Richard Niebuhr
Ronald Reagan once quipped, "I've noticed all those in favor of abortion are already born." Indeed, all pro-abortionists would become pro-life immediately if they found themselves back in the womb.
- Norman Geisler
you ought not judge" is itself a judgment! (Pluralists misinterpret Jesus' comments on judging [Matt. 7:1-5]. Jesus did not prohibit judging as such, only judging hypocritically.)
- Norman Geisler
Contrary to what is being taught in many public schools, truth is not relative but absolute. If something is true, it's true for all people, at all times, in all places.
- Norman Geisler
Even if there were doubt as to when life begins, the benefit of the doubt should be given to protecting life—reasonable people don't shoot unless they're absolutely sure they won't kill an innocent human being.
- Norman Geisler
a perfectly just God must punish bad deeds regardless of how many good ones someone has performed.
- Norman Geisler
The highest freedom is the freedom from evil, not the freedom of doing evil.
- Norman Geisler
the Moral Law is not always the standard by which we treat others, but it is nearly always the standard by which we expect others to treat us.
- Norman Geisler
If we teach students that there is no right and wrong, why are we surprised when a couple of students gun down their classmates or a teenage mother leaves her baby in a trash can?
- Norman Geisler