Quotes about Morality
No One Is a Relativist at the Bank
— John Piper
Relativism, as we saw in the previous chapter, undermines that effort. It kidnaps the happy handmaiden of truth and makes her serve the pride and pleasure of pragmatists. Relativists don't pursue truth. They make the denial of truth serve them.
— John Piper
In the first case, we use our own power to make ourselves moral. In the second case, we use our own power to make the church moral. In the first case, we fail to rely on the power of God for our own sanctification. In the second case, we fail to rely on the power of God for the sanctification of others.
— John Piper
I cannot ask of heaven success, even for my country, in a cause where she should be in the wrong.
— John Quincy Adams
Always stand on principle, even if you stand alone.
— John Quincy Adams
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
— John Quincy Adams
Vice does not lose its character by becoming fashionable.
— John Wesley
Good people avoid sin because they love goodness, Wicked people avoid sin because they fear punishment.
— John Wesley
Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
— John Wooden
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
— John Wooden
The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.
— John Wooden
If intellectual greatness, apart from any higher consideration, is worthy of honor, then our homage is due to Satan, whose intellectual power no man has ever equaled. But when perverted to self-serving, the greater the gift, the greater curse it becomes. It is moral worth that God values. Love and purity are the attributes He prizes most.
— Ellen White