Quotes About Morality

The ne plus ultra of wickedness ... is embodied in what is commonly presented to mankind as the creed of Christianity.

Hypocrisy is oftenest clothed in the garb of religion.

As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion.

Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.

Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.

He, who steadily observes those moral precepts in which all religions concur, will never be questioned at the gates of heaven as to the dogmas in which they all differ.

With religion I was always like, 'Does it matter if it's true if it makes you happy?'

If the Old Testament were a reliable guide in the matter of capital punishment, half the people in the United States would have to be killed tomorrow.

Therefore, since we may say, after such long experience, that religion does not imply exact honesty, we are authorized by the same reasons to think that atheism does not exclude it.

He who has made great moral progress ceases to pray

Sinfully acquired wealth may remain for ten years; in the eleventh year it disappears with even the original stock.

The nature of heaven is to provide a place there for all who lead good lives, no matter what their religion may be.

If you want the meaning of families and life and religion and philosophy rolled into one package, all you need to read is The Brothers Karamazov.

From what I have seen, I am driven to the conclusion that religion is only good for good people.

We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.

Better have men reproach you for being good, than have God damn you for being wicked. Be not laughed out of your religion. If a lame man laugh at you for walking upright, will you therefore limp?

Once God and grace move us to the second half of life, religion becomes a mystical matter, rather than a moral matter.

Heaven is such that all who have lived well, of whatever religion, have a place there.

Human passions unbridled by morality and religion...would break the stronges cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net.

A pretty good test of a man's religion is how it affects his pocketbook.

Every religion there's something foul going on.

religion notoriously claims that they invented morality, they didn't. Morality exists in animals, ya know.

Is what is moral commanded by God because it is moral, or is it moral because it is commanded by God?

One is often told that it is a very wrong thing to attack religion, because religion makes men virtuous. So I am told; I have not noticed it.