Quotes About Morality

the sinful mind is blind, ungrateful, and irrational.

Many people have a distorted concept of sin due to the influence of secular philosophy and psychology.

God has always regarded evil thoughts as sinful:

our objective standard for determining what is good is the Bible.

Regardless of whether or not man is free, is man "expected or obliged to account" for his actions to God? Yes, because Scripture says, "For God will bring every deed into judgment, including every hidden thing, whether it is good or evil" (Ecclesiastes 12:14).

Isaiah 5:20, "Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.

In other words, moral responsibility does not presuppose human freedom, but it presupposes divine sovereignty. We are responsible not because we are free, but we are responsible precisely because we are not free.

Know that there is good, and that there is evil. These two are not the same, and God does not want us to confuse them. He wants us to be able to tell the difference between the two, and to be wise and possess deep insights concerning goodness, but he does not want us to be skillful regarding how to devise and accomplish evil. For such to occur, we must be knowledgeable with the word of God.

Instead of measuring freedom by whether our thoughts and actions are free from God, we are "free" as long as we are free relative to other created things, and then we build moral responsibility on that. They just changed the reference point.

If we place moral responsibility back where it belongs – on God's sovereign decree to judge all mankind – then human freedom becomes irrelevant, and there would be no problem in discarding it.

Why is the gospel discredited when a believer steals from his employer? And when a pastor commits adultery, what does it have anything to do with the truth concerning Jesus Christ?

You must not think that you had the good sense or moral clarity to choose Christ, as if God did not sovereignly and irresistibly cause you to so choose. The doctrine of free will represents the height of impiety and the essence of false religion.

By this book, he defines for man truth and error, and right and wrong.

the very ideas of right and wrong remain undefined without his verbal revelation – he must define these concepts for us, and only his definitions are authoritative, relevant, and binding on all people.

God is the only standard of justice, and we must submit to his standard instead of imposing our own standard on him.

I do not sit with deceitful men, nor do I consort with hypocrites; I abhor the assembly of evildoers and refuse to sit with the wicked. (Psalm 26:4-5)

Sin corrupts and erodes a person's heart,

we are to hate both the evil people and their evil deeds.

Until heaven, there will be no government in which those who hold power are completely sinless and selfless, and in which all the precepts of God are perfectly followed.

because human society has not been operating under this principle, it has passed laws that open the floodgate to mass murder (as in abortion), that endorse rampant sodomy, that consider adultery as a private affair between consenting adults, and that grant divorce as a right to be freely exercised.

The standard of right and wrong rested solely on God's authority, not as something outside of him, but as identical to his will, and expressed in his instructions and commands.

You cannot preach like a Christian and then vote like an atheist. If you do, you are probably just an atheist.

On what basis do they say that right and wrong is determined by whether it hurts someone?

But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger. (Romans 2:8)