Quotes About Morality

The children of disobedience are such as choose to disobey God, and to serve the devil;

Whatever is unclean should be to us an abomination; touch not the unclean thing.

By having fellowship with sin, which is abominable, we make ourselves abominable.

Sin is the corruption or depravation of the sinner, and it is a self-corruption;

We must never be drawn into sin by any thing that man can say or do to us, for it will not justify us to say that we were so drawn in.

As time will not wear out the guilt of sin, so it will not blot out the records of conscience;

Those are marked for ruin who persist in sin, and are not ashamed of the abominations they have committed, Jer. 8:12.

Guilty consciences are apt to take good providences in a bad sense

is better to incur the world's hatred, by testifying against its wickedness, than gain its good-will by going down the stream with it.

Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked; what can be expected from unrighteous men but more unrighteousness?

He wrote them in two tables of stone, that they might be preserved from corruption, and might be transmitted pure and entire to posterity, for whose use they were intended, as well as for the present generation. These

He that speaks evil of his brother is said to speak evil of the law, and consequently of the Law-maker

Freedom is not the ability to do whatever you want. Freedom is the strength of character to do what is good, true, noble, and right. Freedom is the ability to choose and celebrate the-best-version-of-yourself in every moment. Freedom without discipline is impossible.

The abuse of something good does not diminish the good itself.

The moral he drew from the story of ancient slavery in 1836 was that Christianity's benevolent influence had almost imperceptibly and with the spirit of love abolished slavery.

The end must justify the means.

For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.

The ends must justify the means.

You need to know it's your actions that will make you a good person, not desire.

What people do in the name of religion is not necessarily religious. It often has baser reasons behind it.

When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what's left?

Factory farming isn't just killing: It is negation, a complete denial of the animal as a living being with his or her own needs and nature. It is not the worst evil we can do, but it is the worst evil we can do to them.

The only thing worse than cruelty is delegated cruelty.

When we shrink from the sight of something, when we shroud it in euphemism, that is usually a sign of inner conflict, of unsettled hearts, a sign that something has gone wrong in our moral reasoning.