Quotes About Morality

It's a sort of curious phenomenon that God is somehow not quite as nice as the devil; the devil doesn't punish you for behaving well, but God punishes you for behaving badly.

I do like talking with friends about big concepts, you know, the stuff that will ruin a party. To me, the party hasn't begun until we're talking about the nonexistence of God.

I think judgment is from within. It's not a God judging. Someone who is nasty - they're the one who has to sleep at night.

There is no horror, no amount of evil in the world, that a true believer can't rationalize as consistent with a loving God. It's the ultimate way of fooling yourself.

I'm religiously celibate except in LA, NOLA, FLA, because there is certainly no God in any of those places. So unless you live in one of those places I'm really no good to you.

Yet only the atrocities of the conquered are referred to as criminal acts; those of the conqueror are justified as necessary, heroic, and even worse, as the fulfillment of God's will.

I think I grew up with the idea that God was a punishing being, constructed around rules.

I let God be the judge and I believe that we worship a just and fair God who won't punish innocent people unnecessarily.

I think God gives every one of us our own will, and unfortunately, some people choose to do evil things with it.

If I lose at play, I blaspheme; if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So, God is always the loser.

I don't want to claim that God is on our side. As Abraham Lincoln told us, I want to pray humbly that we are on God's side.

God will punish the wicked. And before He does, we will.

Reason's voice and God's, Nature's and Duty's, never are at odds.

The things that are done in the name of the shareholder are, to me, as terrifying as the things that are done - dare I say it - in the name of God.

God may have mercy, but we won't.

Wherefore did he [God] create passions within us, pleasures round about us, but that these rightly tempered are the very ingredients of virtue?

Verily if with mine own eyes I had seen a priest of God, or any of those who wear the monastic garb, sinning, I would spread my cloak and hide him, that he might not be seen of any.

Our obligation to the will of God is our obligation to the laws of practical reason.

If, it was natural to reason, God punishes men with eternal torment, it is surely lawful for men to use doses of it in a good cause.

A tragic writer does not have to believe in God, but he must believe in man.

And you call yourself a Christian,' were Hilly's words to me and I thought, God. When did I ever do that?

Such grave matters as sin and forgiveness should remain between man and God

Justice is useful when money is useless.

If a man dethrones God in his heart, Satan must ascend to His position.