Quotes about Morality
In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments.
— Rutherford B. Hayes
I'm not getting to heaven on my integrity. I'm not getting to heaven on my goodness.
— Rick Warren
I don't think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.
— Joel Osteen
You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible!
— Ezra Taft Benson
A good name is still to be preferred over great riches. Especially it is to be preferred to the appearance of riches, aquired with nothing down and nothing to pay for 2 months.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Right and wrong as moral principles do not change. They are applicable and reliable determinants whether the situations with which we deal are simple or complicated. There is always a right and wrong to every question which requires our solution.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Youth leaders, are you holding aloft our standards, or have you compromised them for the lowest common denominator in order to appease the deceived or vile within the Church? Are the dances and music in your cultural halls virtuous, lovely, praiseworthy, and of good report (Articles of Faith 13), or do they represent a modern Sodom with short skirts, loud beat, strobe lights, and darkness?
— Ezra Taft Benson
It is good strategy to stand up for the right, even when it is unpopular. Perhaps I should say, especially when it is unpopular.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Stick by your righteous guns and you will bless your fellowman. Be right, and then be easy to live with, if possible--but in that order.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Whenever we are sure that we are among the righteous, we immediately find ourselves among the arrogant.
— Fleming Rutledge
If sin is not exposed, named, and renounced, then there has been no justice and God is dishonored.
— Fleming Rutledge
Wisdom entereth not into a malicious mind, and science without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
— Francois Rabelais