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Quotes About Morality

God made the world, My Lord, and looked at it, and saw that it was good. Yes. But what if the world had looked back at him, to see whether he was good or not?
~ Isak Dinesen
God is what's good in me.
~ John Gunther
Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.
~ John Henry Newman
I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get right about its God the rest would follow.
~ Laurence Housman
Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.
~ Lucretius
God is conscience. He is even the atheism of the atheist.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
I will not be a traitor of God to please the whole world.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
All the dry ethics of the world turn to dust because apart from God they are lifeless.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Stand up for justice, stand up for truth; and God will be at your side forever.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
My obligation is to do the right thing. The rest is in God's hands.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
In God's pattern of justice, He takes the risk of the guilty going free but not the innocent being punished.
~ Max Anders
A lot of God-loving people think that killing people who don't agree with them is OK.
~ Michael Newdow
Sharia ... is, of course, invalid because it's God's Law, and God doesn't exist.
~ Pat Condell
... God is going to judge righteously... . what did each one do in relation to what he or she knew to be right of wrong?
~ Pat Robertson
It is not possible that a just God should forgive people who are wicked because another person who was good endured agony by being nailed to a cross.
~ Rebecca West
It is a virtue to admit ignorance when you don't know, but not to wallow in ignorance as an end in itself. People say if we don't believe god is watching over us, we abandon morality. Are they right?
~ Richard Dawkins
The bible says that all people, not just believers, possess part of the image of God; that is why murder and abortion are wrong.
~ Rick Warren
If there be no God, then what is truth but the average of all lies.
~ Robert Breault
It is He who gave to this intellectual nature free-will of such a kind, that if he wishes to forsake God his blessedness, misery should forthwith result.
~ Saint Augustine
To not believe in God is to know that it falls to us to make the world a better place.
~ Sam Harris
Atheism comes into rather a bad press and I suppose I'd rather describe myself as a humanist... I don't believe in God. I don't believe there is a God.
~ Stephen Fry
There's always a choice. That's God's way, always will be. Your will is still free. Do as you will. There's no set of leg-irons on you. But... this is what God wants of you.
~ Stephen King, The Stand
But I don't understand God. I don't understand how he could see the way people treat one another, and not chalk up the whole human race as a bad idea.
~ Jim Butcher, Grave Peril
The world will be brighter and wiser without religions, but it will surely be darker and more hopeless without God!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan