Quotes about Morality

The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.

There is a God and He is good, and his love, while free, has a self imposed cost: We must be good to one another.

Though God may be Love, God is Truth above all.

The significance of the law of love is precisely that it is not just another law, but a law which transcends all law.

Evil is the absence of God. This means that in the space between Man and God, evil exists. And this space is necessary because God had to give us a choice. He had to give us space to choose to love and obey Him.

When you lead with integrity you won't always win, but you will always do the right thing.

There are two sorts of hypocrites: ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external religion and the others are those that are deceived with false discoveries and elevation which often cry down works, and men's own righteousness, and.

So if a man live in any way of lasciviousness, the more his impure lust prevails, the more sweet and pleasant will it make the sin appear, and so the more will he be disposed and prejudiced to think there is no evil in it.

What we call a vice is actually an inability to recognize what has the greatest value.

In short, were a man to "give all his goods to feed the poor, and his body to be burned," out of zeal to promote some public good, yet without love to God, without benevolent attachment to universal being, he is morally nothing, or worse than nothing.

The estrangement between Edwards and his people began in 1744, in connection with a case of discipline in which a large number of the youth belonging to the leading families of the town were brought under suspicion of reading and circulating immoral books.

7. Resolved, Never to do any thing, which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.