Quotes about Morality
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
According to the Stoics, all vice was resolvable into folly: according to the Christian principle, it is all the effect of weakness.
— John Quincy Adams
Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.
— Anne Frank
Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.
— Euripides
We live in a world that is filled with filth and sleaze, a world that reeks of evil. You cannot afford that filthy poison to touch you. Stay away from it. Avoid it.
— Gordon Hinckley
When you see the political parties squabble, if a baby is not allowed to be born, all the other issues do not come into play.
— Alveda King
I'd rather be biblically correct than politically correct.
— Mark Batterson
Not all of those who cry 'The poor, the poor!' will enter the kingdom of heaven.
— Michael Novak
The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it.
— John Owen
There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.
— Henry David Thoreau
Abortion isn't a lesser evil, it's a crime. Taking one life to save another, that's what the Mafia does. It's a crime. It's an absolute evil.
— Pope Francis