Quotes About Morality

Moral certainty, clear standards, and a commitment to spiritual ideals will set you apart in a world that searches for meaning.

For every step in spiritual perception, three steps are to be taken in moral development.

We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate.

Irrespective of whether we are believers or agnostics, whether we believe in God or karma, moral ethics is a code which everyone is able to pursue.

I'm very, very, very, very spiritual. I grew up in an organized religion, I went to Sunday school as a kid. I'm very grateful that there was religion. I think it instills a good moral compass.

Without Goodness one cannot enjoy enduring happiness

It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reiteration of the badness of our spiritual condition will make us consent to it.

When a society lacks God, even prosperity is joined by a terrible spiritual poverty.

For if we are bidden to honor carnal fathers and mothers, how much more the spiritual? ... If this virtue of charity has been overlooked, a man will lose any fruit of salvation in any good he may do.

religion's for those who believe in hell and a spiritual belief is for those who've been there.

She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it.

Goodness is not in the backyard of the individual nor in the open field of the collective; goodness flowers only in freedom from both.

When one has truly imbibed spiritual qualities, they will spontaneously be reflected in one's thoughts and actions.

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue.

Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil.

If a person does not harm any living being...and does not kill or cause others to kill - that person is a true spiritual practitioner

It is an accepted commonplace in psychology that the spiritual level of people acting as a crowd is far lower than the mean of each individual's intelligence or morality.

If you contemplate the Golden Rule, it turns out to be an injunction to live by grace rather than by what you think other people deserve.

One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole

What to one man is the virtue which he has sunk below the possibility of aspiring to, is to another the backsliding by which he forfeits his spiritual crown.

Thinking well is integral to acting righteously. Truth and spirituality are of a piece: to know the truth is to do it. There is no dichotomy between the two. To be spiritual is to know/do the truth.

As morality seems to have supplanted civilization, I move on to the spiritual.

The refined punishments of the spiritual mode are usually much more indecent and dangerous than a good smack.

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.