Quotes About Morality

God loves good men more than bad men, as He loves angels more than men

Only when there is virtue in souls can there be peace and happiness in society.

St. Thomas is as practical and plain and reasonable in ethics as Aristotle, or Confucius, or your uncle.

There is no such thing as an involuntary sin.

In fact, educated people can justify sins more easily than uneducated people can, because they are clever enough to rationalize their sins away.

Plato was right when he said that all evil comes from ignorance. He forgot that ignorance also comes from evil.

Right Response to Reality—the Three R's—is the fundamental principle of morality, of sanctity, and of sanity.

Truth is unchanging. The principles of morality are unchanging. The human essence is unchanging. Therefore there is no hope of a New Man, Heaven on Earth, Babel Rebuilt, a Brave New World, or Superman.

Disbelief is a sin, but honest unbelief is not.

Sociologists and anthropologists tell us that religion has three dimensions: creed, code, and cult; or words, works, and worship; or theology, morality, and liturgy.

Corruptio optimi pessima." The corruption of the best things are the worst things.

F]or a thing to be evil, one single defect suffices, whereas for it to be good . . . it is not enough for it to be good in one point only, it must be good in every respect. . . .

For everything naturally desires good

Principles without facts are empty, but facts without principles are blind.

murder and adultery are great crimes.

Even God cannot make us love him. "Forced love" is a meaningless impossibility, like "virtuous sin".

That's why contraception is wrong by nature: it's a limit, a "Wait! Hold! No! Not quite! We won't give each other Everything")

St. Augustine says, "If God is, why is there evil? But if God is not, why is there good?

the God of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—is moral today.

Morality flows from metaphysics because goodness flows from God.

the nature of a voluntary act, whose principle needs to be in itself;

manifests a good person, a good character, a good habit, and also because good deeds gradually form good habits, good character, good persons.

A habit is a stable disposition to act in a certain way, good or evil. Virtues are good habits; vices are bad habits.

Second, the origin of evil is not the Creator but the creature's freely choosing sin and selfishness.