Quotes about Morality
Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.
— John Adams
Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against wrong. A love of truth and a veneration of virtue. These amiable passions, are the latent spark... If the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling the differences between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice, to what better principle can the friends of mankind apply than to the sense of this difference?
— John Adams
Statesmen may plan and speculate for liberty but it is religion and morality alone that can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand.
— John Adams
The good die young — because they see it's no use living if you've got to be good.
— John Barrymore
Saint abroad, and a devil at home.
— John Bunyan
When a man's cause is good, it will sufficiently plead for itself, yea, and for its master too.
— John Bunyan
One leak will sink a ship, and one sin will destroy a sinner.
— John Bunyan
Undoubtedly the dress of a virtuous and godly woman must differ from that of a strumpet.
— John Calvin
God does not avenge certain crimes in this world, but postpones punishment to the next, to deal with them all the more severely; conversely.
— John Calvin
In condemning, therefore, the vices of a father, a truly pious son will subscribe to God's Law; and still, whatsoever he may be, will acknowledge that he is to be honored, as being the father given him by God.
— John Calvin
Rom. 7:10, that the law is turned into a source of ruin for us, not because it is evil but because we are wicked.
— John Calvin
Adam did not take away the will, but made it a slave where it was free. It is not only prone to sin, but is made subject to sin.
— John Calvin