Quotes About Morality

This is true religion, to approve what God approves, to hate what he hates, and to delight in what delights him

There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.

True character arises from a deeper well than religion.

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

The great pillars of all government and of social life [are] virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone, that renders us invincible.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

To rule by fettering the mind through fear of punishment in another world is just as base as to use force.

It's a strange myth that atheists have nothing to live for. It's the opposite. We have nothing to die for. We have everything to live for.

Sincerity is the indispensable ground of all conscientiousness, and by consequence of all heartfelt religion.

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

I do not believe in God, because I believe in man. Whatever his mistakes, man has for thousands of years been working to undo the botched job your god has made.

Only religion can lead to such evil.

What is it the Bible teaches us? -- rapine, cruelty, and murder.

Vice does not lose its character by becoming fashionable.

I was convinced that, besides millions of frank unbelievers, there are today large numbers of half-believers to whom religion is a source of intellectual and moral discomfort.

Banks have done more injury to the religion, morality, tranquility, prosperity, and even wealth of the nation than they can have done or ever will do good.

There was no other God, religion, or lawful magistracy, than conscience, which teaches all men the precepts of Justice, to do no injury, to live honestly, and give everyone his due.

The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.

Not the Christian religion only, but nature herself, cries out against the state of slavery.

Religion is a thing to be lived. It is not merely sophistry.

Let us with Caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.

If you have a sloppy religion you get a sloppy atheism.

That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.

Observe good faith and justice towards all Nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it?