Quotes About Morality

They are the people who currently dominate the media. An identity of being 'on the left' has become a lazy way of feeling morally superior;

podemos decir que los "chulos bancarios" son tan despreciables como los proxenetas comunes.

The regrets that fester are overwhelmingly about failures to meet 'oughts', when we have let someone down, breaching an obligation.5 We learn from such regrets to keep our obligations. Although our decisions are biased towards momentary folly, when we consider our actions 'oughts' usually trump wants.

Canaanite "genocide" • the binding of Isaac • a jealous, egocentric deity • ethnocentrism/racism • chattel slavery • bride-price • women as inferior to men • harsh laws in Israel • the Mosaic law as perfect and permanently binding for all nations • the irrelevance of God for morality

Moral relativism and rights don't mix. Relativism undermines any appeal to rights: If rights exist, relativism is false; if rights exist, where do they come from? Again, we're pointed in the direction of a good God in whose image humans have been made—and thus who sets the parameters regarding our sexuality.

The never-angered person is morally deficient.

Justice comes from the soul.

Sin makes us moral quadriplegics.

Your theology won't always work toward your obedience, because your use of theology is dictated by the condition of your heart. If your heart is not submitting to the plan of God, you will actually use your theology to justify things that should not be justified.

When your child wonders about what is right and what is wrong, don't just threaten him with the law of God; woo him with the sweet music of the grace of God. When she is struggling with what

your alarm that is your conscience only sounds based on the standard that your heart has surrendered to. This means that a good and godly moral value system will all your conscience to function properly, but a bad and self-centered moral value system will mean that your conscience will do you harm.

I am very good at playing monkey games with my morality.

El amor real, bíblico y que honra a Dios nunca compromete lo que Dios establece como bueno y malo.

God's law is meant to address and expose the heart because sin is always a matter of the heart before it is an action of the body.

The scary deception of sin is that, at the point of sinning, sin doesn't look all that sinful.

Being willing to tolerate things that are wrong in the eyes of God may create a comfortable surface peace, but it isn't what love does. Being

Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power - power to do good or evil. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.

Cain is in each of us. We lose our temper, feel cornered and frightened, it can be the work of an instant. But to savour murder - that's not the prompting of Cain, that's Satan!

One of the great advantages about being a villain is that you can easily recognise other villains and on rare occasions, recognise a truly good man.

It would be masochistic and sadistic of me to tell the truth about something if I knew for sure that I would create only misery for myself and others. We've all heard of pathological liars. Telling the truth in such circumstances would be an example of being pathologically honest. We need to judge each behavior on its specific consequences for happiness and not on the basis of whether or not it accords to a generally good rule.

Not everyone is able to lie or is willing to do so.

People feel less guilty about lying to those they think are wrongdoers. A philanderer whose marital partner is cold and unwilling in bed might not feel guilty in lying about an affair.

If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out.

A fib such as the above did nobody any harm, while a lie was deliberate, told to save yourself or to gain an unfair advantage.