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Quotes About Morality

We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent.
~ Archibald MacLeish
The farther we get from God, the more the world spirals out of control.
~ Billy Graham
In many ways, the church seems to hate evil more than it loves good or even God.
~ Carlton Pearson
God is dead not because He doesn't exist, but because we live, play, procreate, govern, and die as though He doesn't.
~ Charles Colson
I cannot persuade myself that a beneficient and omnipotent God would have designedly created...that a cat should play with mice.
~ Charles Darwin
I just believe if you don't believe in God, then where is your moral barometer? That's just me talking. You can believe what you want to believe.
~ Steve Harvey
God's grace does not come to people who morally outperform others, but to those who admit their failure to perform and who acknowledge their need for a Savior.
~ Timothy Keller
If you want to move beyond hive-docility, you must become God the Moralist.
~ Timothy Leary
Who made God? Doesn't matter. We are not responsible to a hypothetical maker of God but to our maker - God.
~ Walter Martin
Nothing harms or destroys us but the wrong use of that liberty of choice which God has entrusted to us.
~ William Law
Sin is basically a denial of God's right of possession.
~ Edwin Louis Cole
It wasn't God who introduced us to morality; rather, it was the other way around. God was put into place to help us live the way we felt we ought to.
~ Frans de Waal
God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers?
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
If we break promises to God, shouldn't we be allowed an occasional violation of our word to our friends and superiors?
~ James Lee Burke
If God doesn't destroy Hollywood Boulevard, he owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology.
~ Jay Leno
Who keeps on loving you when you've been lying, saying things that ain't what they seem? God does, but I don't. God will, but I won't.
~ Lyle Lovett
Publicly humiliating someone for your own gain will only come and haunt you. God's going to have his revenge.
~ Madonna Ciccone
All sins are committed in secrecy. The moment we realize that God witnesses even our thoughts, we shall be free.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
To say that God permits evil in the world may not be pleasing to the ear. But if He is held responsible for the good, it follows that He has to be responsible for the evil too.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Everyone's conscience in religion is between God and themselves, and it belongs to none other.
~ Margaret Cavendish
If we only had some God in the country's laws, instead of being in such a sweat to get him into the Constitution, it would be better all around.
~ Mark Twain
God in His law requires the death penalty for homosexuals.
~ R.J. Rushdoony
Whatsoever is good; the same is also approved of God.
~ Richard Hooker
Who born so poor, Of intellect so mean, as not to know What seem'd the best; and knowing not to do? As not to know what God and conscience bade, And what they bade not able to obey?
~ Robert Pollok