Quotes about Morality
Our ethics are not meant to be created in our childhoods and shoved in a box somewhere; they must be reshaped daily, as we encounter scenarios that challenge our beliefs.
— Elie Wiesel
most of us turn to religion for our ethics because we don't know where else to find them.
— Elie Wiesel
I am convinced that the human heart hungers for constancy. In forfeiting the sanctity of sex by casual, nondiscriminatory making out and sleeping around, we forfeit something we cannot well do without. There is dullness, monotony, sheer boredom in all of life when virginity and purity are no longer protected and prized.
— Elisabeth Elliot
God values Christian character, which shines in positive, outward conduct. Fashion your heart after Jesus.
— Elizabeth George
Proverbs 7:11-12—These verses describe, of all things, an adulteress. She is doing the opposite of the wise homemaker who tends to her house and housework. She is "out there," walking the streets, instead of being at home. "Her feet would not stay at home. At times she was outside, at times in the open square, lurking at every corner.
— Elizabeth George
Kind hearts are more than coronets / And simple faith than Norman blood.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Live pure, speak true, right wrong, follow the King—Else, wherefore born?
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
If you live in such a manner as to stand the test of the last judgment, you can depend upon it that the world will not speak well of you.
— Alistair Begg
The idea of monogamous same-sex relationships being acceptable to God emerges from an unwillingness to submit to the clear teaching of Scripture.
— Alistair Begg
One said whatever would be of advantage; the question whether it was true no longer arose.
— Alvin Plantinga
God creates a world containing evil and has a good reason for doing so.
— Alvin Plantinga
God has ...created us with cognitive faculties designed to enable us to achieve true beliefs with respect to a wide variety of propositions - propositions about our immediate environment, about our own interior lives, about the thoughts and experiences of other persons, about our universe at large, about right and wrong, about the whole realm of abstracta - numbers, properties, propositions - ... and about himself.
— Alvin Plantinga