Quotes About Morality

It is not just that we are immoral, but that a moral life alone cannot bridge what separates us from God.

You see, when the skeptic asks why God did not fashion us so that we would only choose good, he or she completely misses—drastically misses—what goodness is in God's eyes. Goodness is not an effect.

Herein lies the cardinal difference between the moralizing religions and Jesus' offer to us: Jesus does not offer to make bad people good but to make dead people alive.

A society that hates laws that guard the soul despises not so much the laws as much as it despises the very thought of a soul. Those who belong to such a society consider the flesh the totality of their being.

If the loss of shame was the child of secularization, the loss of reason is the child of pluralization.

Morality can build pride as well as philanthropy; true spirituality will never submit to pride.

If atheism is correct, his nauseating list from genocide to infanticide does not describe God's character but the people who claim to believe in God.

taken. There is so much intelligibility and specified complexity in this world that it seems willful and prejudiced to try to explain it away with no intelligence behind it. Can morality, personality, and reality be reasonably explained without a personal, moral first cause?

Los hilos morales de una vida son para reflejar y honrar al Dios que servimos, no un medio para entrar al cielo.

Religion has a checkered history, and some of it is reprehensible. An

Teaching at best beckons us to morality, but it is not in itself efficacious. Teaching is like a mirror. It can show you if your face is dirty, but the mirror will not wash your face.

And in our search for morality and happiness outside of God, we have effectively lost all three—God, morality, and happiness.

Violation of the sacred in the pursuit of happiness is not truly a source of happiness. In fact, it kills happiness because it can run roughshod over many a victim.

Pleasure that profanes is pleasure that destroys.

Even though we did not author creation, we wish to author morality and take the reins of life.

Antitheism provides every reason to be immoral and is bereft of any objective point of reference with which to condemn any choice.

Canadian atheist Kai Nielson said it well: We have not been able to show that reason requires the moral point of view, or that really rational persons unhood-winked by myth or ideology need not be individual egoists or classical amoralists. Reason doesn't decide here. The picture I have painted for you is not a pleasant one. Reflection on it depresses me. . . . Pure practical reason, even with a good knowledge of the facts, will not take you to morality.

A moral life alone cannot bridge what separates us from God. This is the cardinal difference between the moralizing religions and Jesus' offer to us. Jesus does not offer to make bad people good but to make dead people alive.

wrongdoing has a way of robbing one even of common sense. Why

Dac? senzualul nu ar fi educat ?i dirijat de spiritual, s-ar reduce invariabil la fizic, ?i nimic mai mult.

Morality was never a means of salvation for anyone. The moral threads of a life were intended to reflect and honor the God we serve; they are not a means of entering Heaven.

Pure morality points you to the purest One of all; and the purer your habits, the closer to God you will come.

What holds the laws of a nation? It is the moral soil that must hold the roots.

The moral law will always stand over and above and against a heart that seeks to be its own guide. One