Quotes About Morality

Excellence-moral, ethical, personal excellence-is worth whatever it costs.

Notice that "I" is at the center of the word "ethical." There is no "they." Achieving the ethics of excellence is our individual assignment.

The business virtue par excellence is honesty without it markets can't long survive.

In the common degree of the moral, there is no virtue. Virtue is excellence.

There is nothing in our experience, however trivial, worldly, or even evil, which cannot be thought about christianly.

History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.

There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.

Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.

To me, nothing is more vibrant than having the power to do something but not having the experience of knowing what's right and what's wrong.

Experience convinces me that permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth & violence. Even if my belief is a fond delusion, it will be admitted that it is a fascinating delusion.

The pain is not about having cheap people around…. real pain is the fact that there are some people with a price to start with.

I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can't fail if you do that.

In a difficult situation one never-failing guide is to ask yourself: "What would Christ have done?" Then do it-as nearly as you can.

To fail to do good is as bad as doing harm.

When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that.

In the end ... success or failure will come down to an ethical decision, one on which those now living will be judged for generations to come.

Our own evil inclinations are far more dangerous than any external enemies.

If you have to make laws to hurt a group of people just to prove your morals and faith, then you have no true morals or faith to prove.

The greatest menace in this country is not the bootlegger, but the college professor who rejects the Bible and undermines the faith of the young.

Many of the Christian faith have said, well, that's okay, contraception is okay. It's not okay. It's a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be.

A person is born with feelings of envy and hate. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to violence and crime, and any sense of loyalty and good faith will be abandoned.

If you take the 'love your enemy' out of Christianity, you've 'unChristianed' the Christian faith.

My daughter, I see more Pharisees among Christians than there were around Pilate.

Those opposed to abortion cannot simply invoke God's will-they have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is accessible to people of all faiths.