Quotes About Morality

He who puts on a religious demeanor abroad to gain himself a great name among men, and at the same time lives like an atheist at home, shall at the last be unmasked by God, and presented before all the world for a most detestable hypocrite.

When a man hath begun to sin, he knews not where, or when, or how he shall make a stop of sin. Usually the soul goes on from evil to evil, from folly to folly, till it be ripe for eternal misery. Men usually grow from being naught to be very naught, and from very naught to be stark naught, and then God sets them at nought forever.

God's holiness is not an unloving holiness, and God's love is not an unholy love. It is only by keeping these two primary moral qualities of the divine being closely related that we may rightly behold the character of God. (p. 98)

to serve God means to act with justice. One cannot pray and offer sacrifice while ignoring the poor, the beggars at the gates. But more radical still: if you have more than you need, you are a thief, for what you "own" is stolen from those who do not have enough. You are a murderer, who lives on the abundance that has been taken from the mouths of the starving.

I am sorry for only two things. These two things are: I am sorry that I have mistreated some few animals in my life time and I am sorry that I am unable to murder the whole darned human race

The issue is whether the orders are morally acceptable or not, and that question is not answered by anti-intellectual demands of obedience.

Vitoria and his allies believed that natural law existed not just among Christians but among all peoples.

I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.

Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.

Be a good boy, remember; and be kind to animals and birds, and read all you can.

Thoroughly convinced of the impossibility of his own suit, a high resolve constrained him not to injure that of another. This is a lover's most stoical virtue, as the lack of it is a lover's most venial sin.

I can't bear that they, and everybody, should think people wicked because they may have chosen to live their own way!

Love has its own dark morality when rivalry enters in.

Was once lost always lost really true of chastity?

I can't bear that they,and everybody, should think people wicked because they may have chosen to live their own way!It is really these opinions that make the best intentioned people reckless, and actually become immoral!

Or, to state his character as it stood in the scale of public opinion, when his friends and critics were in tantrums, he was considered rather a bad man; when they were pleased, he was rather a good man; when they were neither, he was a man whose moral colour was a kind of pepper-and-salt mixture.

Two ardent hearts against one poor little conscience

However you have lived, Sue, I believe you are as innocent as you are unconventional!

A cloud that has gathered over us; though 'we have wronged no man, corrupted no man, defrauded no man!' Though perhaps we have 'done that which was right in our own eyes.

And there was revived in her the wretched sentiment which had often come to her before, that in inhabiting the fleshly tabernacle with which Nature had endowed her she was somehow doing wrong.

What's right week days is right Sundays

tal vez me interesara saber por qué... por qué sale el sol lo mismo para el bueno que para el malo

Was once lost always lost really true of chastity? she

The greater the sinner the greater the saint; it was not necessary to dive far into Christian history to discover that