Quotes about Morality
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
If I lose at play, I blaspheme; if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So, God is always the loser.
— John Donne
Wherefore did he [God] create passions within us, pleasures round about us, but that these rightly tempered are the very ingredients of virtue?
— John Milton
Because things are not agreeable, " said Jean Valjean, "that is no reason for being unjust towards God.
— Victor Hugo