Quotes about Morality
Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
He, who steadily observes those moral precepts in which all religions concur, will never be questioned at the gates of heaven as to the dogmas in which they all differ.
— Thomas Jefferson
The man who does not know the nature of the Law, cannot know the nature of sin.
— John Bunyan
Better have men reproach you for being good, than have God damn you for being wicked. Be not laughed out of your religion. If a lame man laugh at you for walking upright, will you therefore limp?
— Thomas Watson
Human passions unbridled by morality and religion...would break the stronges cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net.
— John Adams
Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the oaths . . . ?
— George Washington
Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
— St. Augustine
Without religion this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company, I mean Hell.
— John Adams
Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who have possessed these pieties have wrought great evil.
— A Powell Davies
Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.
— Laurence Sterne
In France, religion had been considered the enemy of liberty, but in America, as George Washington expressed it, religion and morality were the 'twin pillars of freedom.'
— James Kennedy
All true religion must stand on true morality.
— Henry Ward Beecher