Quotes About Morality

There is no other light other than Jesus that can lead to true joy now or to eternal life in days to come; not money, adventure, or success; not the pride of morality; not the pleasure of sin. The only true light is Jesus Christ, and God in His grace sent Him into this world to be our Savior.

Rules, whether they govern sexual morality or financial probity, regardless of whether they are justifiable or undesirable, always provoke bold recalcitrants to devise clever, defiant ways to breach them.

The God of the Old testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction...

Do you really mean to tell me the only reason you try to be good is to gain God's approval and reward, or to avoid his disapproval and punishment? That's not morality, that's just sucking up, apple-polishing, looking over your shoulder at the great surveillance camera in the sky, or the still small wiretap inside your head, monitoring your every move, even your every base though.

In Western tradition, white is beautiful because it is the colour of virtue. This remarkable equation relates to a particular definition of goodness. All lists of the moral connotations of white as symbol in Western culture are the same: purity, spirituality, transcendence, cleanliness, virtue, simplicity, chastity. In

Whether you're heroic or heartless may depend on a contextual factor whose impact is far greater than we would tend to assume.

One of the logical consequences of monotheism is guilt.

no word in the Hebrew language of that period for "religion." Religion was not a separate, identifiable category of beliefs and activities. It was an inseparable, pervasive part of life.

The principle of acting in good faith is at the heart of decent work.

Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks.

You're only good if you can do bad and decide not to.

The great proliferation of museums in the nineteenth century was a product of the marriage of the exhibition as a way of awakening intelligent interest in the visitor with the growth of collections that was associated with empire and middle-class affluence. Attendance at museums was as much associated with moral improvement as with explanation of the human or natural world.

Worthy character is best forged from a life of consistent, correct choices centered in the teachings of the Master.

Strong moral character results from consistent correct choices in the trials and testing of life. Your faith can guide you to those correct choices.

You cannot be passive in life, or in time the natural man will undermine your efforts to live worthily. You become what you do and what you think about. Lack of character leads one under pressure to satisfy appetite or seek personal gain. You cannot successfully bolster a weak character with the cloak of pretense.

Billions of people don't practice a religion at all.

They eat every part of them, including the testicles. I don't eat the testicles. I don't want anybody eating on mine, so I won't eat on anybody's. I eat the hams, ribs, and shoulders. I enjoy them. Once you start eating testicles, it's like you've gone cannibalistic.

Indeed, as we have seen, the drama and tragedy of the moral life lies in the fact that most human disagreement is between opposing goods rather than between right and wrong.

Bring a vampire around, people start discovering religion.

My principles wouldn't allow it.

The man who goes to the top is the man who has something to say and says it when circumstances warrant. Men who keep silent underdressed are moral cowards.

Yet Conscience is a nobleman, the best in us, and a friend.

Really now, search your soul, lovie-is the vampire so bad? All he does is drink blood.

Crossing your fingers, Neville? Knocking on wood? He ignored that, beginning to suspect his mind of harboring an alien. Once he might have termed it conscience. Now it was only an annoyance. Morality, after all, had fallen with society. He was his own ethic. Makes a good excuse, doesn't it, Neville? Oh, shut up.