Quotes about Morality

The conscience can be a strong guide in life if we allow it.

You cannot build your life with a consistent worldview that is on the shifting sands of moral relativism.

I cannot in all conscience agree to anyone being sent to the gallows. God alone can take life because He alone gives it . . .

My dharma teaches me to give my life for the sake of others without even attempting to kill.

I never did a thing in all my life, virtuous or otherwise that I didn't repent of within twenty-four hours.

A second reason is that, conversely, it is morally necessary for the lowly to be lifted up and the underlings exalted.

Sire—I have received an order, under your majesty's seal, to put to death all the protestants in my province. I have too much respect for your majesty, not to believe the letter a forgery; but if (which God forbid) the order should be genuine, I have too much respect for your majesty to obey it.

Though you," said he, "can so easily mock God, the world, and your own conscience, yet will I not do so.

They have forgotten these immortal words of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the Lutheran pastor whose passion for truth drove him to confront Adolf Hitler and Germany:   Silence in the face of evil is itself evil. God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.1.

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.

Boys do not fully know what is good and what is evil; they do wrong things at first almost innocently. Novelty hides vice from them; there is no one to warn them or give them rules; and they become slaves of sin, while they are learning what sin is.

Have you noticed that it is usually easier to judge than obey? Religious people are especially good at it. I tried