Quotes about Morality
Man is weak, greedy, craven, lustful, prey to every species of vice and depravity. He will lie, steal, cheat, murder, melt down the very statues of the gods and coin their gold as money for whores. This is man.
— Steven Pressfield
A Jew asks over and over, "What is fair? What is just? Who is a good man, and why?
— Steven Pressfield
When our heart wants to live in purity & do the right thing, God will keep us from falling into sin.
— Stormie Omartian
Lord, help my children to make godly friends. I know that You brought us here and You will not leave my children forsaken. I'm concerned that in their need for acceptance they'll end up with friends whose moral standards are not as high as Yours. Bring godly role models into their lives.
— Stormie Omartian
Being a good man has nothing to do with how many touchdowns you score. But maybe, rather, how you play the game.
— Susan May Warren
I've never had anyone define purity. You probably can't define purity. Purity is to live according to original design.
— Josh McDowell
I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God.' That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic—on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg—or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse.
— Josh McDowell
Endorsing immoral behavior is not equivalent to loving a person, nor is correcting that behavior equivalent to rejecting a person.
— Josh McDowell
God's laws tell us right from wrong and how we are to treat others. As the founding fathers established a new democracy in America, they did so on the premise that humanity was fallen and thus there was a need for a rule of law to curb our natural tendencies to follow our own wants and lusts even to the detriment of others.
— Josh McDowell
That which is inhuman cannot be divine.
— Frederick Douglass
You can't just blame things on evil. Everyone's a human, so when people say that somebody's behaving 'inhuman,' it's not. It's very human - it's just not a very nice side of it.
— Eric Johnson
My mission in life is to get to heaven, so the people I have in my inner circle I don't allow to do the 'rule breaking' that we know as Christians we can't.
— Harris Faulkner