Quotes About Morality

Suicide is not abominable because God prohibits it; God prohibits it because it is abominable.

We are all God's creatures-that we pray to God for mercy and justice while we continue to eat the flesh of animals that are slaughtered on our account is not consistent.

You need to follow your own heart in light of God's word and do what you feel is right and good for you.

There are two restraints which God has laid upon human nature, shame and fear; shame is the weaker, and has place only in those in whom there are some reminders of virtue.

To secure integrity there must a lofty sense of duty and a deep responsibility to future times as well as to God.

I sometimes think God allows Great Britain to be unprincipled for the good of mankind.

Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.

It is a sad day for our country when the moral foundation of our law and the acknowledgment of God has to be hidden from public view to appease a federal judge.

I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.

Even if it were true that we need God to be moral, it would of course not make God's existence more likely, merely more desirable (many people cannot tell the difference)

Zounds! sir, you are one of those that will not serve God if the devil bid you.

I have always considered "Pascal's Wager" a questionable bet to place. Any God worth "believing in" would surely prefer an honest agnostic to a calculating hypocrite.

The Rudderless World is not shaped by vague metaphysical Forces. It is not God who kills the Children. Not Fate that butchers them or Destiny that feeds them to the Dogs. ... It´s us. Only us.

I as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity, as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.

The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed.

Wickedness comes to its height by degrees. He that dares say of a less sin, Is it not a little one? will ere long say of a greater, Tush, God regards it not!

A belief in God helps provide a foundation to arbitrate our decisions. Without this foundation, we are condemned to live essentially formless lives.

He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him!

Conscience has nothing to do as lawgiver or judge; but is a witness against me if I do wrong, and which approves if I do right. To act against conscience is to act against reason and God's Law.

I can't help but note that God is being useful to a lot of people trying to do harm to one another.

It is highly convenient to believe in the infinite mercy of God when you feel the need of mercy, but remember also his infinite justice.

Human beings judge one another by their external actions. God judges them by their moral choices.

God is on the side of virtue; for whoever dreads punishment suffers it, and whoever deserves it, dreads it .

If you don't believe in God, then where is your moral barometer?