Quotes About Morality

Now am I, if a man should speak truly, little better than one of the wicked.

I'll starve ere I'll rob a foot further.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

You are one of those that will not serve God if the devil bid you.

And thus I clothe my naked villainy With old odd ends, stol'n forth of holy writ And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.

Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunnery, go.

He is not great who is not greatly good.

To thine own self be true -; And it must follow as the night the day; Thou canst not be false to any man

This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.

Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.

If saving money is wrong, I don't want to be right!

What made the show work, in addition to the relationships between the members of the crew, were the stories we told each week. Star Trek wasa tribute to the great tradition of science fiction, in which future civilizations were used to tell contemporary morality tales, tales about subjects that couldn't be addressed for various reasons at the time.

Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.

Christians have no business thinking that the good life consists mainly in not doing bad things. We have no business thinking that to do evil in this world you have to be a Bengal tiger, when, in fact, it is enough to be a tame tabby—a nice person but not a good one. In short, Pentecost makes it clear that nothing is so fatal to Christianity as indifference.

There is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.

Being holy . . . does not mean being perfect but being whole; it does not mean being exceptionally religious or being religious at all; it means being liberated from religiosity and religious pietism of any sort; it does not mean being morally better, it meas being exemplary; it does not mean being godly, but rather being truly human.

Notice, too, how often the standard of help - rehabilitation, as it is usually called - is not just made up of the common morality of middle class society, but specifically in how far the client or patient or case imitates and becomes like the case worker or probation person or professional - that is, in how far the one who is being helped becomes like the one who is helping him.

To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me.

Economic relationships do not operate on value-neutral laws, but are rather carriers of specific convictions about the nature of the human person - the person's origins and destiny. There is an implicit anthropology and an implicit theology in every economics.

We shall say without hesitation that the atheist who is moved by love is moved by the Spirit of God; an atheist who lives by love is saved by his faith in the God whose existence (under that name) he denies.

No one who is not a Christian in spirit can perform the Christian act; and the Sermon on the Mount is not a code of rules to be mechanically followed; it is the description of the life which any man will spontaneously lead when once the Spirit of Christ has taken complete possession of his heart.

O ye who lead,Take heed!Blindness we may forgive, but baseness we will smite.

true Christians consider themselves not as satisfying some rigorous creditor, but as discharging a debt of gratitude