Quotes about Morality

Our choosing the right consistently whenever the choice is placed before us creates the solid ground under our faith. It can begin in childhood, since every soul is born with the free gift of the Spirit of Christ. With that Spirit we can know when we have done what is right before God and when we have done wrong in His sight.

Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.

God will take care of the poor trampled slave, but where will the slaveholder be when eternity begins?

Each of us must decide whether it is more important to be proved right or to provoke righteousness.

Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them.

Whiskey is all right in its place - but its place is hell.

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.

I mean in the South African case, many of those who were part of death squads would have been respectable members of their white community, people who went to church on Sunday, every Sunday.

Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.

The price of peace is righteousness.

What does it mean to be a conservative? I don't even know anymore. I know what it means to me. It means to me, personal responsibility. That if I've done something wrong, its up to me to pay the price. It's up to me to make it right.

Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar.