Quotes about Morality
The Bible tells us that the sins of the fathers are passed to succeeding generations. The virtues of the fathers can be passed along, too.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
- NT Wright
We consume the carcasses of creatures of like appetites, passions and organs with our own, and fill the slaughterhouses daily with screams of pain and fear.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
What is it that renders death terrible? Sin. We must therefore fear sin, not death.
- Alphonsus Liguori
I greatly fear that the universities, unless they teach the Holy Scriptures diligently and impress them on the young students, are wide gates to hell.
- Martin Luther
That courage which arises from the sense of our duty, and from the fear of offending Him that made us, acts always in a uniform manner, and according to the dictates of right reason.
- Joseph Addison
It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer.
- Victor Hugo
The fear of doing right is the grand treason in times of danger.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Every time you feel like doing the wrong thing but choose to do the right thing, you are growing!
- Joyce Meyer
Never lie, steal, cheat, or drink. But if you must lie, lie in the arms of the one you love. If you must steal, steal away from bad company. If you must cheat, cheat death. And if you must drink, drink in the moments that take your breath away.
- Will Smith
Life, the way it really is, is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.
- Joseph Brodsky
To be good is noble, but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.
- Mark Twain