Quotes About Morality

Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask.

If there is a god, the only genuine friend he has is an atheist. He does not blame him for anything.

The world was new each day for God so made it daily. Yet it contained within it all the evils as before, no more, no less.

He who has a living faith in God will not do evil deeds with name of God on his lips.

On the day of my judgment, when I stand before God, and He asks me why did I kill one of his true miracles, what am I gonna say? That it was my job? My job?

In my mind God made Adam and Eve, he didn't make Adam and Steve.

Standards of education are not set by government, but by God, the Bible, the home and the school.

The least stupid question a man asks in his lifetime is not: Is there a God and is He a god or a devil? But: Brother, why are you killing me?

Is God to blame for what I myself have done?

Conscience is God's deputy in the soul.

The moral duty of man consists of imitatingthe moral goodness and beneficence of God,manifested in the creation, toward all His creatures.

Conscience is merely our own judgment of the right or wrong of our actions, and so can never be a safe guide unless enlightened by the word of God.

Piety and morality are but the same spirit differently manifested. Piety is religion with its face toward God; morality is religion with its face toward the world.

But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.

God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest.

The voice of honest indignation is the voice of God.

People ... have tried to evoke God or devil to justify them in what their glands insisted upon.

The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.

I think, when God told Moses, "Thou shall not kill," I think God meant, "Thou shall not kill." And within the next one hundred years, we will see that God was right.

Beautiful thoughts hardly bring us to God until they are acted upon. No one can have a true idea of right until he does it.

Laws are the silent assessors of God.

I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.

God defend the right.

The protection of God cannot, without sacrilege, be invoked but in behalf of justice and right.