Quotes about Morality

The Christian faith, simply stated, reminds us that our fundamental problem is not moral; it is spiritual.

The game is played not to protect the rules; rather, the rules are made to protect the game. That

When God decides who should live or die, he is immoral. When you decide who should live or die, it's your moral right." There was a pin-drop silence.

Atheists seem to exercise their reductionistic tendencies selectively. If religion stands in the way of saving people, these people have infinite worth. But if the scientist stands in the way of preserving human life, the embryo is "nothing more than a dot.

Seeking new sensations while violating the sacred first desecrates the self and finally destroys the sensation.

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.