Quotes about Morality

They knew, with the painful conviction of experience, what it meant to say, "I see and approve the better, but follow the worse.

The possibility of evil exists from the moment that a creature is made that can love and do good because it chooses and not because it is unable to do anything else. The actuality of evil exists from the moment that that choice is exercised in the wrong direction.

The safeguards of virtue are hateful to the evil disposed.

Those who return evil for good should not expect the kindness of others to last long.

You simply cannot be a disciple without being a missionary—a sent one. For way too long discipleship has been limited to issues relating to our own personal morality and worked out in the context of the four walls of the church with its privatized religion.

Personal liberty is not personal license.

The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The problem is the person or persons using it.

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.

I'm not a politician. I don't want to be a politician, because politicians do what is politically expedient. I want to do what's right.

Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that's their gift.

Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.