Quotes About Morality

A god that created the world and then walked off the site leaving it to its own devices is not a fit object of worship, nor a source of moral authority.

But if we get to the point where more people do not believe in a God than who do believe in God, we will have a hollow legal system - we will have something without heart.

God tests, but he does not tempt.

God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause.

Freedom is first of all a responsibility before the God from whom we come.

I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation.

People understand God as the expression of the most lofty morality. Maybe He needs only perfect people.

In America, you're allowed to justify almost any kind of bigotry, sexism, or intolerance if you source it to God's big book of bad ideas.

It's a big mistake to think that your own cause, or your own country, or your own side has God in its corner. For one thing, it commits the sin of pride.

If you will not have God (and He is a jealous God), you should pay your respects to Hitler or Stalin.

I have loved my friends as I do virtue, my soul, my God.

Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed this His universe to go.

The Sun shineth as well on the good as the bad: God from on high beholdeth all the workers of iniquity, as well as the upright of heart.

There can be no rule of God in the present state of iniquitous inequalities in which a few roll in riches and the masses do not get enough to eat.

People believe in God because we are pattern-seeking, storytelling, mythmaking, religious, moral animals.

The stench of impurity before God and the angels is so great, that no stench in the world can equal it.

I always knew that God's way was the best, that I wanted to wait, and that I valued purity.

Beware! Don't allow yourself to do what you know is wrong, relying on the thought, Later I will repent and ask God's forgiveness.

To say murder is wrong is as much a statement of faith as 'I believe that God said murder is wrong' is a statement of faith

I'd rather go to hell than worship a homophobic God.

America desperately needs a moral rebirth. We need to implore God's blessings on our country and ask Him to forgive our sinfulness and restore our moral perspective.

What if God exists except it turns out he doesn't really like people very much?

Anything you want to say about God you better make sure you can say in front of a pit of burning babies.

We are always making God our accomplice so that we may legalize our own inequities.