Quotes about Ethic

My father taught me to always do more than you get paid for as an investment in your future.

We have a lot of kids who don't know what works means. They think work is a four-letter word.

The Puritan ethic of marriage was first to look not for a partner whom you do love passionately at this moment but rather for one whom you can love steadily as your best friend for life, then to proceed with God's help to do just that.

The claim advanced in Christianity is of that magnitude: Jesus of Nazareth ushers in not simply a new religious possibility, not simply a new ethic or a new way of salvation, but a new creation. Now

Renounce poor work.Shun trivial work.Entertain respectable work.Welcome superior work.Honor transcendent work.

On the contrary, The Philosopher says (Ethic. ix, 8): "Love for others comes of love for oneself.

It was not because I had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, but because Joe had a strong sense of the virtue of industry, that I worked with tolerable zeal against the grain.

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.

Just as Cardinal Bernardin proposed that an of ethic of life be consistently applied to unite all the life issues, we need in our day to mine the church's social teaching on solidarity.

However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.

You can't have a million dollar dream with a minimum wage work ethic.

The older liberal theology, which indeed was still primarily a theology or a view of God, died and was resurrected in the form of a social ethic that one could share with people who had no reliance on a present God or a living Christ at all. Total inclusivism of all beliefs and practices except oppressive ones, such as the exclusivism of traditional Christianity itself, was the natural next step.