Quotes about Morality
To forsake wisdom is to seek folly, to seek folly is to seek evil, to seek evil is to be in the arms of the devil, and to be in the arms of the devil is be in the arms of death.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
These false pretexts and varnished colours failing, rare in thy guilt how foul must thou appear.
— John Milton
Abash'd the Devil stood, and felt how awful goodness is, and saw virtue in her shape how lovely.
— John Milton
Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law.
— John Milton
Tis Chastity, my brother, Chastity: She that has that, is clad in complete steel.
— John Milton
And out of good still to find means of evil.
— John Milton
The real or supposed necessity of treating the Negroes with rigor gradually brings a numbness upon the heart and renders those who are engaged in it too indifferent to the sufferings of their fellow creatures.
— John Newton
The thought of building a life around minimal morality or minimal significance—a life defined by the question, "What is permissible?"—felt almost disgusting to me. I didn't want a minimal life. I didn't want to live on the outskirts of reality. I wanted to understand the main thing about life and pursue it.
— John Piper
Just being an obedient Christian is increasingly becoming a social, political, legal issue...
— John Piper
Doing right for right's sake is atheistic.Christians should do what God says is right because in doing it we enjoy more of God.
— John Piper
Worship is the highest moral act a human can perform, so the only basis and motivation for it that many people can conceive is the notion of morality as the disinterested performance of duty. But when worship is reduced to disinterested duty, it ceases to be worship. For worship is a feast.
— John Piper
The foundation of moral life as God's truthfulness.
— John Piper