Quotes about Morality

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

Self discipline is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.

Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.

Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

Here will I hold. If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Thro' all her works), He must delight in virtue; And that which he delights in must be happy.

When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, The post of honour is a private station.15

Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.

Life-the way it really is-is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.

I want to develop discernments that say an unapologetic "no" to ways that violate the gospel of Jesus Christ.

I have no interest in eliminating the tension between justice and forgiveness by taking justice off the table. Given the subtleties of sin and the persistence of evil, we would soon be living in moral anarchy and political chaos if there were no provision for justice.