Quotes about Morality
Never say anything to hurt anyone. Moreover . . . refrain from double talk, from shrewd and canny remarks that are designed to advance our interests at someone's disadvantage. We are to turn our back upon evil, and in every way possible, do good, help people and bring blessings into their lives.
— Norman Vincent Peale
Virtue is what happens when wise and courageous choices have become second nature
— NT Wright
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. (The autocrat of the breakfast-table)
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Our morality seems to be only a check on the ultimate domination of force, just as our politeness is a check on the impulse of every pig to put his feet in the trough.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Sin and the child of God are incompatible. They may occasionally meet, but they cannot live together in harmony .
— Oprah Winfrey
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
— Oprah Winfrey
The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.
— Origen
Conscience is the chamber of justice.
— Origen
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be. WILLIAM HAZLITT
— Os Guinness
Thus a good man, though a slave, is free; but a wicked man, though a king, is a slave. For he serves, not one man alone, but, what is worse, as many masters as he has vices. ST. AUGUSTINE, CITY OF GOD
— Os Guinness
Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue." Rochefoucauld's maxim
— Os Guinness