Quotes About Morality

Many Americans who are not fastened at the temples to a Christian prayer book are offended by politicians who justify their decisions by piously quoting the Old Testament.

Consistent prayer is the desire to do right.

Straight praying is never born of crooked conduct.

A wicked man in prayer may lift up his hands, but he cannot lift up his face.

He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.

We took the Bible and prayer out of public schools, now we're having weekly shootings practically.

It was no true prayer to beg forgiveness while choosing to sin.

Thank God he killed the guy. Oh, now, wait a minute. What kind of a prayer was that!

Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie-I found that out.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.

Prayer is not logical it is a mysterious moral working of the Holy Spirit.

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.

I've always believed in people's capacity for goodness. I still believe that people are good. What I'm not so trusting about anymore is their relationship to their own goodness.

Love is unselfishly choosing for another's highest good.

I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.

By ethical conduct toward all creatures, we enter into a spiritual relationship with the universe.

La conciencia evita cometer atrocidades. Pero las atrocidades cometidas regularmente anulan la conciencia.

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Evolution is not humane, but we could be.

Literature should not be surpressed merely because it affects the moral code of the censor.

Chesterton decía que el bien no consiste simplemente en abstenerse de hacer el mal, que el bien no puede ser una virtud meramente negativa y pasiva, que el bien debe ser algo que obra, algo perceptible por sus frutos, así como el blanco es un color y no una simple ausencia de color.

Siempre es que, realizadas por otros, nuestras mismas acciones parecen más sucias

To be sure, there is no advance guarantee that when two practices are in total or massive conflict with each other, one of them will be more firmly established than the other. But that is just an example of the general point that the human condition provides no guarantee that we will not be faced with questions we have no way to settle.