Quotes About Morality

The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.

Whoever has the world's treasures has them no matter how he got them. In the world of the spirit it is otherwise.

Evangelical faith without Christian ethics is a travesty on the gospel.

To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

Your faith shapes the kind of person that you are.

I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.

I don't think there are any churches that have "Thou shalt not believe in climate change" written in their actual statement of faith.

The first and almost the only Book deserving of universal attention is the Bible.

There is genius as well in virtue as in intellect. 'Tis the doctrine of faith over works.

We must move forward in the days ahead with audacious faith. The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends toward justice.

As for religious faith, a lack of it shouldn't stop us from doing good deeds for their own sake.

In the end, it is conscience that will have the last word, stronger than all strategies, all ideologies and also all religions.... Peace is still possible.

By and large, women have a faith and a morality peculiar to themselves; they believe in the reality of everything that serves their interest and their passions.

A lie is an act of theft. It steals peoples faith and makes them resent themselves

Dad was also a deeply, unabashedly religious man... , But he never made the fatal mistake of so many politicians - wearing his faith on his sleeve to gain political advantage.

The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class. It is not the realisation of a political ideal: it is the discharge of a moral obligation.

Religion and science have always been matters of faith in something. It is the same something.

The focus of the Christian faith is not our morality; it is Jesus, who died for our immorality.

One of the author's most ancient roles is to call the community to account for its hypocrisies and bad faith.

If the West believed in something, it would prevail overnight. The problem is you can't beat bad faith with no faith.

What if you had faith and performed good works, what if you died and went to heaven, and what if all the people you met there were people you didn't like?

Our conscience, our faith, our local community, even our online hobby clubs - all civilize us.

At all costs we must re-establish faith in spiritual values. We must worship something beyond ourselves, lest we destroy ourselves.