Quotes About Morality

Where religion is a trade, morality is a merchandise.

There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness.

All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.

Education belongs pre-eminently to the church ... neutral or lay schools from which religion is excluded are contrary to the fundamental principles of education.

the worship of beauty is to me a religion. Nothing bad was ever truly beautiful; nothing good is ever really ugly.

What the Gospels actually said was: don't kill anyone until you are absolutely sure they aren't well connected.

Good taste is his religion, his morality, his standard, and his test.

We must be truthful and fair in the ordinary affairs of life before we can be truthful and fair in patriotism and religion.

How many evils have flowed from religion.

The government of a country never gets ahead of the religion of a country. There is no way by which we can substitute the authority of the law for the virtues of men.

the church should just stay out of people's pants.

The conscious attempt to be a good person without Christ is as legalistic as an attempt to make it into Heaven through empty religiosity.

Maybe a new religion will rise now. Maybe without it, man will crumble in cynicism and selfishness because he really needs his gods.

God is forgiving or we would not still be walking this world. But to be moral is not to need his divine forgiveness, I think.

Religion is a mixed blessing.

Only religion could justify killing an adult with a family because he carried out abortions of unwanted or unhealthy fetuses that don't even have the intelligence of a typical fish.

There are some great values in Christianity, but I think the values are located more deeply in our humanity than they are in our religion. There are certainly some survival values.

A good man will honor him who lives up to his religious profession, whatever it be.

Dharma is that which is enjoined by the holy books, followed by the sages, interpreted by the learned and which appeals to the heart.

My religion is a matter solely between my Maker and myself.

Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to God alone.

The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.

Politics bereft of religion is absolute dirt, ever to be shunned.

As society is now constituted, a literal adherence to the moral precepts scattered throughout the Gospels would mean sudden death.