Quotes about Morality

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

The object of the superior man is truth.

I for my part have never yet seen one who really cared for Goodness, nor one who really abhorred wickedness. One who really cared for Goodness would never let any other consideration come first. One who abhorred wickedness would be so constantly doing Good that wickedness would never have a chance to get at him.

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

Every act of man would from the very first have to be a moral act, an act of choice for or against God. Hence man would even in every act of knowledge manifest true righteousness and true holiness.

But always they featured things we believed were wrong in the sight of God. Stealing, lying, murder. Was this what God wanted in times like these? How should a Christian act when evil was in power?

While some consider God's standards as too confining, a true believer sees them as loving and freeing.

There's nothing cool about turning against God. There's nothing fun or cute or right about compromising who God wanted you to be.

As we become scarred and desensitized to what is right and wrong, good and evil, life-giving and life-draining, we lose sight of our first love. We move away from God one degree at a time.

You can't build a foundation of sin now for a life of purity later.

Or maybe they just accept that it's wrong in God's eyes, although not in their own, and they'll worry about sorting it out later.

There's no such thing as racism, sexism, 'homophobi-ism,' 'Islamophobi-ism' - it's good versus evil, right versus wrong.