Quotes About Morality

When I hear that a man is religious, I conclude he is a rascal!

The most miserable man or woman is the one who knows what is right and does not do it.

The Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world.

You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.

Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.

What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?

To remain neutral in a situation where the laws of the land virtually criticized God for having created men of color was the sort of thing I could not, as a Christian, tolerate.

The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.

As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises.

Man is born with uprightness. If one loses it, he will be lucky if he escapes with his life.

The greatest king of Israel, King David, the author of the Psalms, sent a man out to die in battle so that he could sleep with his wife.

When men no longer fear God, they transgress His laws without hesitation. The fear of consequences is no deterrent when the fear of God is gone.

The fear of God makes a hero; the fear of man makes a coward.

I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.

Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.

Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained.

All men are naturally included to obscure the morally ambiguous element in their political cause by investing it with religious sanctity.

When a man lies he murders some part of the world. These are the pale deaths men miscall their lives.

The body will shine if the character is fine; service of man and worship of God will preserve its charm.

How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.

The daughter-in-law of Pythagoras said that a woman who goes to bed with a man ought to lay aside her modesty with her skirt, and put it on again with her petticoat

No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God

One man's opportunism is another man's statesmanship.

I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.