Quotes About Morality

The Scripture warns about evil communications that corrupt good manners. Off-color jokes and dirty stories have no place in the Christian life. Thousands of people are engaging in immorality by the way they talk. Keep your talk pure. Ask God to purify your tongue.

We need to know what the Bible teaches about right and wrong. Every day we are battered by messages—from the media, advertising, entertainment, celebrities, even our friends—with one underlying theme: "Live for yourself.

Sometimes we face "gray areas," things that aren't necessarily forbidden by the Bible but still may not belong in our lives.

Cursing, telling smutty stories, smearing the good name of another, and referring irreverently to God and the Scriptures may be considered as coming under the expression corrupt speech. Our speech is to be clean, pure, and wholesome.

If we are living according to what we believe, we may be falsely accused.

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

Everyone is a hypocrite in one sense or another and I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints.

Only the good die young.

Hypocrites in the Church? Yes, and in the lodge and at the home. Don't hunt through the Church for a hypocrite. Go home and look in the mirror. Hypocrites? Yes. See that you make the number one less.

If there is no hell, a good many preachers are obtaining money under false pretenses.

After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world.

Isn't strength the ability to renounce every lie in your heart?

Man is naturally a reasoning animal, and is only then truly a man when his passions are tempered and his conduct regulated by reason. The function of reason is the recognition and the realization of truth; truth recognised in speculation is science; truth realized in action is a moral life and a well-ordered society.

The majority of men, like the majority of dogs I presume, are not physical cowards; the dog is naturally a fighting animal, and so is man. But that the majority of men are moral cowards is certain.

Of the noblest minds in the moral world it may always be asserted that their whole life has been rather a practical deduction from lofty truths given by original inspiration from the Divine Source of all vitality than the product of any induction from an acquired survey of facts.

It is held, it is true, and very justly, by the principal of our ethical writers, that human laws are binding upon men's consciences. But if that were the only, or most forcible obligation, the good only would regard the laws, and the bad would set them at defiance.

Popular assemblies are frequently foolish in their contrivance, and weak in their execution; but generally mean to do the thing that is right and just.

The power of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special efforts, but by his ordinary doing

No soul of high estate can take pleasure in slander. It betrays a weakness.

Experience makes us see an enormous difference between piety and goodness.

The only shame is to have none

Man is neither angel nor beast; and the misfortune is that he who would act the angel acts the beast.

True eloquence takes no heed of eloquence, true morality takes no heed of morality.

Men never do evil so thoroughly and cheerfully as when they do it for conscience sake.