Quotes About Morality

All these evils come from within, and these are what defile a man.”

If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than to have two hands and go into hell, into the unquenchable fire.

If your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame than to have two feet and be thrown into hell.

So He told them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her.

And if a woman divorces her husband and marries another man, she commits adultery.”

“Why do you call Me good?” Jesus replied. “No one is good except God alone.

You know the commandments: ëDo not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not bear false witness, do not cheat others, honor your father and mother.í”

“Teacher,” he replied, “all these I have kept from my youth.”

It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”

Then some soldiers asked him, “And what should we do?” “Do not take money by force or false accusation,” he said. “Be content with your wages.”

But when he rebuked Herod the tetrarch regarding his brotherís wife Herodias and all the evils he had done,

Then Jesus said to them, “I ask you, which is lawful on the Sabbath: to do good or to do evil, to save life or to destroy it?”

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them.

If you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners do the same.

And if you lend to those from whom you expect repayment, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, expecting to be repaid in full.

But wanting to justify himself, he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”

Woe to you Pharisees! You pay tithes of mint, rue, and every herb, but you disregard justice and the love of God. You should have practiced the latter without neglecting the former.

Woe to you! For you are like unmarked graves, which men walk over without even noticing.”

And why donít you judge for yourselves what is right?

Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

Now there was a rich man dressed in purple and fine linen, who lived each day in joyous splendor.

“In a certain town there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected men.

To some who trusted in their own righteousness and viewed others with contempt, He also told this parable:

“Why do you call Me good?” Jesus replied. “No one is good except God alone.