Quotes about Morality
When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out.
— Frank Sinatra
So evil can't exist unless good exists. But good can't exist unless God exists. In other words, there can be no objective evil unless there is objective good, and there can be no objective good unless God exists. If evil is real—and we all know it is—then God exists.
— Frank Turek
If there is no objective morality then love is no better than murder.
— Frank Turek
If in reading the Bible you find justification for abusing, humiliating, disgracing, harming, or hurting, especially when it makes you feel better about yourself, you are absolutely wrong.
— Fred Craddock
There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.
— Frederic William Farrar
The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
— Frederick Douglass
If the church remains self-righteously aloof from failures, irreligious and immoral people, it cannot enter justified into God's kingdom. But if it is constantly aware of its guilt and sin, it can live in joyous awareness of forgiveness. The promise has been given to it that anyone who humbles himself will be exalted.9
— Brennan Manning
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious convictions.
— Brennan Manning
The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.
— Brennan Manning
Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.
— Henry David Thoreau
Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resigns his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward.
— Henry David Thoreau
It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.
— Henry David Thoreau