Quotes About Morality

Things like sex-change reassignment surgery and hormone treatment, gender fluidity, the legalization of prostitution, marriage to robots, third-trimester abortion, and the war on freedom of speech and religious liberty are dehumanizing and represent Satan's final goal of completely erasing the image of God in man. The Lord Jesus Christ wants us to enjoy the abundant life (John 10:

Virginia Governor Ralph Northam now wants to be "civil" about killing newborns. He ended his response to questions about approving third-trimester abortions by saying, "So again, as I said in my comments about this earlier, we can agree to disagree, but let's be civil about it.

I don't think you need religion.

The demand for moral uniformity is more often practical than theoretical, a demand for moral certainty where none is possible. It is, for Oakeshott, an essentially religious demand, and although an individual agent can seek absolutely reliable guidance in faith, this is not an option that is available to the theorist.

If you're being honest, you don't have to tell THE truth. Only God knows THE truth.

Truth does not blush.

Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.

There is no public entertainment which does not inflict spiritual damage.

a taint on our purity is considered among us something more terrible than any punishment and any death.

I know there's evil in the world, and there always has been. But you don't need to believe in Satan or demons to explain it. Human beings are perfectly capable of evil all by themselves.

I wish I knew how one is supposed to live. I wish somebody had taught me. Why do people we take for authorities when we are children let us down in this respect? Who is to tell us which is right? The cross, the crescent, the hammer and sickle, the smiling Buddha? do as you would be done by.

Only a buzzard feeds on his friends.

I can't say I know at this moment what all these laws are. But on some level everybody knows that we are all getting exactly what we deserve.

The non-doing of any evil, the performance of what's skillful, the cleansing of one's own mind: This is the Buddhas' teaching. Not disparaging, not injuring, restraint in line with the Patimokkha, moderation in food, dwelling in seclusion, commitment to the heightened mind: This is the Buddhas' teaching. Dhp 183, 185

Let a good man do good deeds with the same zeal that the evil man does bad ones.

Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, without guilt, without evil, without a witness against me, without one whom I have wronged. I am one pure of mouth, pure of hands.

Virginity is in the lies of the beholder.

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger give, if thou art asked for little by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same...

A bad man, though raised to honour, always returns to his natural course, as a dog?s tail, though warmed by the fire and rubbed with oil, retains its form.*

Like an earthen pot, a bad man is easily broken, and cannot readily be restored to his former situation; but a virtuous man, like a vase of gold, is broken with difficulty, and easily repaired.

Commit a sin twice, and it will not seem to thee a sin.

For the sake of peace one may lie, but peace itself should never be a lie.

He who can feel ashamed will not readily do wrong.