Quotes about Morality
while religion is ethical, it by no means follows that ethics is religion.
— Georgia Harkness
Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.
— Samuel Johnson
The Christian religion is the best religion that has ever been given to man.
— Thomas Jefferson
I don't know whether any religious leader would say that we must ultimately win, because we're on God's side. If they do say that, it's bad religion.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
I have felt that the Gita teaches us that what cannot be followed in day-to-day practice cannot be called religion.
— Mahatma Gandhi
A woman mixed of such fine elements That were all virtue and religion dead She'd make them newly, being what she was.
— George Eliot
Morality pertains only to the sphere of man's free will - only to those actions which are open to his choice.
— Ayn Rand
Religion stalks across the face of human history, knee-deep in the blood of innocents, clasping its red hands in hymns of praise to an approving God.
— Philip Appleman
What the Gospels actually said was: don't kill anyone until you are absolutely sure they aren't well connected.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The real test of any church or religion is the kind of men it makes.
— David O. McKay
Dharma is that which is enjoined by the holy books, followed by the sages, interpreted by the learned and which appeals to the heart.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to God alone.
— Thomas Jefferson