Quotes about Morality
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
Religion is the fruit of the Spirit, a Christian character, a true life.
— Henry Ward Beecher
For many, religion has to do with what we are allowed to do and not allowed to do. In the end, that doesn't bear fruit.
— Henri Nouwen
Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.
— Charles Dickens
If religion does not make us better people, it will make us very much worse. And of all the bad men who have lived, the religious "bad man" is the worst of all.
— CS Lewis
Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.
— George Bernard Shaw
Dear Religion, This week I safely dropped a man from space while you shot a child in the head for wanting to go to school. Yours, Science.
— Ricky Gervais
Religion is civilization, the highest.
— Benjamin Disraeli
The moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing.
— Thomas Jefferson
The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson