Quotes about Morality
God gave us free will, and we may choose to exercise it in ways that end up hurting other people.
- Francis Collins
There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.
- Francois Rabelais
God, immortality, duty - how inconceivable the first, how unbelievable the second, how peremptory and absolute the third.
- George Eliot
Something good made something bad possible (though not inevitable). Humans, however, didn't use their freedom well. Instead of using it to honor God in friendship, they used it to rebel.
- Greg Koukl
I believe that God is totally moral, but nature, one of God's creatures, is not moral. Nature is blind.
- Harold S. Kushner
We have moral agency as a gift of God. Rather than the right to choose to be free of influence, it is the inalienable right to submit ourselves to whichever of those powers we choose.
- Henry B. Eyring
Morality is good, and is accepted of God, as far as it goes; but the difficulty is, it does not go far enough.
- Henry Ward Beecher
But Captain Vere was now again motionless, standing absorbed in thought. Again starting, he vehemently exclaimed, "Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet that angel must hang!
- Herman Melville
Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel must hang!
- Herman Melville
Our consciences are not infallible, and they can become warped or weakened if not kept aligned by the infallible Word of God.
- J. Oswald Sanders
I let God be the judge and I believe that we worship a just and fair God who won't punish innocent people unnecessarily.
- Jimmy Carter
I think God gives every one of us our own will, and unfortunately, some people choose to do evil things with it.
- Joel Osteen