Quotes About Morality

The compact which exists between the North and the South is a covenant with death and an agreement with hell.

Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North, and slavery would die amid the flame of Christian remonstrance, and faithful rebuke, and holy indignation.

If it were in our national security to deploy to South Africa under apartheid, would we have found it acceptable or customary to segregate African American soldiers from other American soldiers, and say, 'It's just a cultural thing'? I don't think so. I would hope not.

Every nation necessarily inhabits a morally compromised space. All too often our ideals seem to be held to ransom by what we believe, rightly or wrongly, to be objective reality.

Because all I could think about was you, Anna, and how good you are, and what you'd think of me. You put thoughts into my head a Neph shouldn't have!

I don't put bad people in the Void, Blayne. Only the guilty ones.

God hates sin not because he wants us to be good little boys and girls, but because he knows sin destroys that which he loves most: sinners.

What I am is a proud humanist. Atheism says what I don't accept, humanism says what I do." - Nathan Phelps

...that tender compunction of the honest-minded, so different from the hateful intoxication of criminals...

We enjoy observing kindness and compassion in others

To reprove a harm-doer, put him to shame by doing a good deed in return.

What weighs us down is not gravity! A little force of kindness can decelerate depravity.

A man and a woman wanting each other is by far one of the least sinful things I've seen

I do know the difference between right and wrong, but I just like the way wrong feels. It's an impulse, an urge more intense than anything else.

Turned out, monsters were capable of love after all. But it didn't mean they should.

We live in an age so legalistic, we find it hard to imagine someone wanting to obey their Lord simply because they love their God.

He was every angel and every devil.

Just because we want makes ourself happy, it doesn't meant we must cheating to others . remember, "Feeling" .

There's a thin line between love and hate. Maybe in his mind he's doing the right thing.

Some of the worst things are done with the best intentions, Petra, " August said. "You shouldn't have done this to me.

Love the person. Hate the sin.

It is always wrong to enrich yourself at the expense of others.

When the citizens of a nation have been made to love and adhere to values and virtues, then they make better choices.

When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, what value does that put on love?