Quotes about Morality

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.

Antitheism provides every reason to be immoral and is bereft of any objective point of reference with which to condemn any choice.

A moral life alone cannot bridge what separates us from God. This is 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.

wrongdoing has a way of robbing one even of common sense. Why

Morality was never a means of salvation for anyone. The moral threads of a life were intended to reflect and honor the God we serve; they are not a means of entering Heaven.

Pure morality points you to the purest One of all; and the purer your habits, the closer to God you will come.

What holds the laws of a nation? It is the moral soil that must hold the roots.

The moral law will always stand over and above and against a heart that seeks to be its own guide. One