Quotes about Morality

I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.

Unhappy it is, though, to reflect that a brother's sword has been sheathed in a brother's breast and that the once-happy plains of America are either to be drenched with blood or inhabited by slaves. Sad alternative! But can a virtuous man hesitate in his choice?

Wherein you reprove another be unblameable yourself, for example is more prevalent than precepts.

Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell? Priest: No, not if you did not know. Eskimo: Then why did you tell me? Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Speak not evil of the absent, for it is unjust.

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles.

Labor to keep alive in your breaks that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.

There is no real excellence in all of this world which can be separated from right living.

The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world.

The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.