Quotes About Morality

God knows that I detest slavery, but it is an existing evil ... and we must endure it and give it such protection as is guaranteed by the Constitution.

Beauty, I believe, comes from God; therefore, there can be no beauty without goodness.

There is no God. There's no heaven. There's no hell. There are no angels. When you die, you go in the ground, the worms eat you.

To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.

The human dilemma is this: God is Holy and we are not. God is Righteous and we are not.

God invented concubinage, satan marriage.

Upon these two foundations, the law of nature and the law of revelation, depend all human laws.

I'm not against god, I'm against the misuse of god.

A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.

I frankly don't care if you agree with my stand on abortion. I take that stand because no other stand is consistent with decent principles, and no other standard is consistent with the will of God.

People are interested by talent. God is impressed by character

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

I believe God wrote the Word in your essence. That's the genius of my Father. You are born knowing right from wrong. You don't need a book to tell you that!

Whoever wishes to be delivered from the Fire and enter the Garden should die with faith in God and the Last Day and should treat the people as he wishes to be treated by them.

The basis for the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount is not what works, but rather who God is.

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

The root of all sin is the suspicion that God is not good.

An ineffably holy God, who has the utmost abhorrence of sin, was never invented by any of Adam's descendents.

God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the slave trade and the reformation of manners (morality).

Often, without being at all aware of it, men judge themselves, not by God's rule, but by their own.

The crisis of the Western world exists to the degree in which it is indifferent to God.

When you advise any person you should be guided by the fear of God.

The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.

What do I care about Jupiter? Justice is a human issue, and I do not need a god to teach it to me.