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Quotes About Morality

He who cheats with an oath acknowledges that he is afraid of his enemy, but that he thinks little of God.
~ Plutarch
I've always remembered. This fellow said to me - if you think someones'doing you wrong, it's not for you to judge. Kill them first and then God can do the judging.
~ Robert Stone
Virginity is not honored simply because it is virginity, but because it is consecrated of God.
~ Saint Augustine
O God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin.
~ Evelyn Waugh
When God makes a beautiful woman, the devil opens a new register.
~ Ambrose Bierce
People used to behave morally because they thought God was always watching - in some ways God today is the collective, and the collective is watching.
~ Ashton Kutcher
Keep your honor code between you and God, you don't break that, no matter who's not looking. God is.
~ Caroline Myss
Why doesn't God just force us to do the things he knows to be right? It is because that would lose precisely that which he has intended in our creation: freely chosen character.
~ Dallas Willard
God has put me in a really good position where I can make the choices to walk away if something is not right, so that way I can keep my integrity.
~ Tyler Perry
If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions.
~ Malcolm Bradbury
God didn't give Adam and Eve the right to decide what was good and evil. He gave them the right to choose between good and evil.
~ Mark Hart
In abortion they are trying to destroy the last bastion of the image of God.
~ R. C. Sproul, Jr.
I don't know if I believe in God, but I know I believe in the devil. I have met him.
~ Rumer Godden
Great God, have pity on the wicked, for thou didst everything for the good, when thou madest them good!
~ Saadi
For right is right, since God is God.
~ Frederick William Faber
We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.
~ George Eliot
I follow my father's philosphy; 'Do what is good, do what is right, and God will take care of the rest.'
~ Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin.
~ H. L. Mencken
How can we speak of right and justice if we take an innocent creature and shed its blood? How can we pray to God for mercy if we ourselves have no mercy? Nobel laureate in literature.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
If there would come a voice from God saying, 'I'm against vegetarianism!' I would say, 'Well, I am for it!' This is how strongly I feel in this regard.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
The only way God could impose peace on the world would be to robotize our wills and rob every human being of the power of choice. He has not chosen to do that. He has given every person a free will.
~ John Haggai
Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted.
~ John Ralston Saul
Principles are what people have instead of God.
~ Alexander Schmemann
A principle is a principle, and God created all the principles.
~ Andy Stanley