Quotes about Morality

It is not just that we are immoral, but that a moral life alone cannot bridge what separates us from God.

You see, when the skeptic asks why God did not fashion us so that we would only choose good, he or she completely misses—drastically misses—what goodness is in God's eyes. Goodness is not an effect.

Herein lies the cardinal difference between the moralizing religions and Jesus' offer to us: Jesus does not offer to make bad people good but to make dead people alive.

A society that hates laws that guard the soul despises not so much the laws as much as it despises the very thought of a soul. Those who belong to such a society consider the flesh the totality of their being.

If the loss of shame was the child of secularization, the loss of reason is the child of pluralization.

Morality can build pride as well as philanthropy; true spirituality will never submit to pride.

If atheism is correct, his nauseating list from genocide to infanticide does not describe God's character but the people who claim to believe in God.

taken. There is so much intelligibility and specified complexity in this world that it seems willful and prejudiced to try to explain it away with no intelligence behind it. Can morality, personality, and reality be reasonably explained without a personal, moral first cause?

Teaching at best beckons us to morality, but it is not in itself efficacious. Teaching is like a mirror. It can show you if your face is dirty, but the mirror will not wash your face.

And in our search for morality and happiness outside of God, we have effectively lost all three—God, morality, and happiness.

Pleasure that profanes is pleasure that destroys.

Even though we did not author creation, we wish to author morality and take the reins of life.