Quotes about Morality
If a shameless woman expects to be defiled and then dies of her fierce love because you do not consent, will chastity also be homicide?
— St. Augustine
But is it what we love, or how we love, That makes true good?
— George Eliot
Everyone has conscience enough to hate; few have religion enough to love.
— Henry Ward Beecher
License they mean when they cry Liberty; For who loves that, must first be wise and good.
— John Milton
I think moral outrage is born not of anger but of love. It comes from the highest in us, not from a low-level sense of anger or cynicism.
— Marianne Williamson
We cannot be truly Christian people so long as we flaunt the central teachings of Jesus: brotherly love and the Golden Rule.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
we will occupy a right and wonderful world only when God's values occupy our lives.
— Bill Hybels
Character is not what we have done, but rather who we are.
— Bill Hybels
A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.
— Booker T. Washington
What is pure Bill? Or excellent or admirable? The death of a million people in a flood? God evidently through so. He is incapable of acts that are not admirable, and it is He who brought about the Flood. How about the slaying of children in Jericho? There are a few Bible stories that are not as terrible as they are happy. We just prefer to leave out the terrible part, but that only makes the good anemic.
— Ted Dekker
And does man simply choose evil, or does he create it?
— Ted Dekker
Not evil. Not any more evil than the colored trees are good.Evil and good reside in the heart, not in trees and water.
— Ted Dekker