Quotes about Morality

I don't think it matters if there is a god or not. I've met people who believe in God that are good and that are bad. And I've met people who don't believe in God that are good and that are bad. So, just be good. I'm good. Not cos I think I'll go to heaven but because when I do something bad, I feel bad. And when I do something good, I feel good.

The Church calls people to be not spiritual mediocrities, but great saints, and this is why its moral ideals are so stringent. Yet the Church also mediates the infinite mercy of God to those who fail to live up to that ideal (which means practically everyone). This is why its forgiveness is so generous and so absolute. To grasp both of these extremes is to understand the Catholic approach to morality.

Every day ask yourself, "What would I do today if I were a better person?"

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.

If there be no God, then what is truth but the average of all lies.

Sometimes, to do the right thing, we must keep a promise we never made.

In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.

But it ain't our feelings we have to steer by through life--no, no, we'd make shipwreck mighty often if we did that. There's only the one safe compass and we've got to set our course by that--what it's right to do.

Steal not this book for fear of shame For on it is the owners name And when you die the Lord will say Where is the book you stole away And when you say you do not know The Lord will say go down below.

Some people are naturally good, you know, and others are not. I'm one of the others.

Mrs. Lynde says Mrs. Wrights grandfather stole a sheep but Marilla says we mustent speak ill of the dead. Why mustent we, Anne? I want to know. It's pretty safe ain't it?

Good behavior in the first place is more important than theatrical apologies afterwards.