Quotes about Morality

I do not think poor human nature so sorry a piece of workmanship as they would make it out to be; and as far as I have observed, I am fully satisfied that man, if left to himself, would about as readily go right as wrong. It is only this eternally sounding in his ears that it is his duty to go right which makes him go the very reverse. The

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.

Rather we must seek out9 the good things peculiar to the good, and give the widest berth to the evils peculiar to evil men.

Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.

You can't divorce religious belief and public service ... I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.

Too often, we think of sin as self-contained, point-in-time choices with no interconnection or momentum. But sin refuses to remain contained in the moment it is conceived.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?

The unpopularity of an obviously right action should not hinder the execution of an obviously right decision.

The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.