Quotes about Morality

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

Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.

The Gospel addresses men as guilty, condemned, perishing criminals. It declares that the most chaste moralist is in the same terrible plight as is the most voluptuous profligate; and the zealous professor, with all his religious performances, is no better off than the most profane infidel. The Gospel contemplates every descendant of Adam as a fallen, polluted, hell-deserving and helpless sinner. The grace which the Gospel publishes is his only hope.

The development of wickedness is one thing; the presence of any measure of holiness or virtue is another.

The total depravity of human nature does not mean that it actually breaks forth into open acts of all kinds of evil in any one man.

There cannot possibly be any solidly grounded hope of a genuine revival of godliness among believers and of morality among unbelievers until the Ten Commandments are again given their proper place in our affections, thoughts, and lives.

God is just and good, and ever does that which is right.

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

The root of a nation's misfortunes has to be sought in the moral failings of the government.