Quotes about Morality
For evil has no positive nature; but the loss of good has received the name "evil."
— St. Augustine
For how could I justly be blamed and prohibited from loving false things, if it were false that I loved them?
— St. Augustine
We maintain that when a woman is violated while her soul admits no consent to the iniquity, but remains inviolably chaste, the sin is not hers, but his who violates her.
— St. Augustine
Sound judgment is to be preferred even to examples, and indeed examples harmonize with the voice of reason; but not all examples, but those only which are distinguished by their piety, and are proportionately worthy of imitation.
— St. Augustine
Therefore the good man, although he is a slave, is free; but the bad man, even if he reigns, is a slave.
— St. Augustine
An unjust law is no law at all.
— St. Augustine
Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
— St. Augustine
Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
— St. Augustine
You can live, provided you live; that is, you can live for ever, provided you live a good life.
— St. Augustine
The fellow who eggs you on to avenge yourself will rob you of what you were going to say as we forgive our debtors. When you have forfeited that, all your sins will be held against you; absolutely nothing is forgiven.
— St. Augustine
Anger is a perversion of courage, as lust is a perversion of love.
— Gregory of Nyssa
In matters of honesty, there are no shortcuts; no little white lies, or big black lies, only the simple, honest truth spoken in total candor... Being true is different than being honest.
— Gordon Hinckley