Quotes about Morality
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.
— Ellen White
The lessons of the Bible have a moral and religious influence on the character, as they are brought into the practical life.
— Ellen White
As we deal with our fellow men in petty dishonesty or in more daring fraud, so will we deal with God.
— Ellen White
They delighted in destroying the life of animals; and the use of flesh for food rendered them still more cruel and bloodthirsty, until they came to regard human life with astonishing indifference.
— Ellen White
The law of God is not made the rule of life. The children, as they make homes of their own, feel under no obligation to teach their children what they themselves have never been taught.
— Ellen White
Bad habits are more easily formed than good habits, and the bad habits are given up with more difficulty. The natural depravity of the heart accounts for this well-known fact—that it takes far less labor to demoralize the youth, to corrupt their ideas of moral and religious character, than to engraft upon their character the enduring, pure, and uncorrupted habits of righteousness and truth.
— Ellen White
it is good for a man to do right, and to leave happiness to take care of itself...
— Ellen Glasgow
When my friend Matilda lay dying of Lou Gehrig's disease, she said that she had been prepared all of her life to choose between good and evil. What no one had prepared her for, she lamented, was to choose between the good, the better, and the best—and yet this capacity turned out to be the one she most needed as she watched the sands of her life run out.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
If Bible lovers paid as much attention to Leviticus 25 as to Leviticus 18, then we might discover that God is at least as interested in economics as in sex.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God. In the words of Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mohandas, "People of the Book risk putting the book above people.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Wisdom is not gained by knowing what is right. Wisdom is gained by practicing what is right, and noticing what happens when that practice succeeds and when it fails. Wise people do not have to be certain what they believe before they act. They are free to act, trusting that the practice itself will teach them what they need to know.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Having received the Spirit of Christ to know good from evil, we should always choose the good.
— Joseph Wirthlin