Quotes About Morality

To say a person is morally bankrupt is to say he or she is completely devoid of any decent moral qualities.

We need to call sin what the Bible calls it and not soften it with modern expressions borrowed from our culture.

But on the whole, we appear to be more concerned about the sins of society than we are the sins of the saints.

So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. ROMANS 7:21

our innate tendency to think our country is always right. We assume that God will bless our side with victory. The Bible does not support such a view. In fact, according to biblical history, God sometimes uses an evil nation to punish another one, then in turn punishes the first nation for its sin.

I believe that human morality, rather than flagrant sin, is the greatest obstacle to the gospel today.

Let's draw the boundary early not wait until it's obvious like Hitler's Germany and insist that the state shall never, never, take the life of a person!

God created the family to provide the maximum love and support and morality and example that one can imagine.

Any sex outside of the marriage bond between a man and a woman is violating God's law.

We will see a breakdown of the family and family values if we decide to approve same-sex marriage, and if we decide to establish homosexuality as an acceptable alternative lifestyle with all the benefits that go with equating it with the heterosexual lifestyle.

To put the point another way, these beliefs provide rational reinforcement for our instinctive moral feelings. This is a significant observation for the obvious reason that we also have feelings and desires that are contrary to moral action. If rational considerations do not support morality but even undermine its rational credentials, it is likely that our moral commitments may be unsettled by thoughtful reflection and awareness.

Accounting for morality in terms of heavenly truth claims not only allows us but inspires us to admire the Jean Valjeans of the world without suspecting they are mad or misguided in any way.

Notice, there is a fundamental difference between providing a biological explanation of why we are inclined to accept a given moral principle and showing that we should accept it. If the ultimate explanation is biological, it is far from obvious that such principles truly obligate us to follow them.

Why do people give each other flowers? To celebrate various important occasions, they're killing living creatures? Why restrict it to plants? 'Sweetheart, let's make up. Have this deceased squirrel.

Pat Boone still didn't cover public cunt-licks in Tips for Teens , and there really wasn't anybody to ask.

The obvious question: Was it better to die now or go on living ashamed of the fact that you were still alive? Why wasn't that on the SATs? Compare and constrast.

Wouldn't it be easier to change people's eyes and hair than to build big furnaces and then catch Jews and Gypsies to burn them?

What's the whole point of being pretty on the outside when you're so ugly on the inside?

I felt like an animal, and animals don't know sin, do they?

the smaller the space between your desire and what is right, the happier you will be.

He wished he could reassure his mother: a man wants many things in life, but when one of them is also the right thing, he would be a fool not to choose it.

These things have happened so often that it becomes clear: a man like this did not die because of what he did but because of what he was. We are the ones who have the privilege of having things happen to us because of what we do. Not everyone is so lucky.

That is why I fought against abortion and that is why if I were still in the Senate I would be doing everything I could to defend the sanctity of marriage.

Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers. It tells people to go out and stick their noses in other people's business. I live by the golden rule: Treat others as you'd want them to treat you. The religious right wants to tell people how to live.