Quotes About Morality

We're Christians. We have to care what people think. The appearance of wrongdoing, remember? I'm not going to move in with you had have people think we're living in sin. What sort of witness would that be?

He knew that beauty faded quickly when embodied by selfishness...

Let anyone among you who is without sin, be the first to throw a stone at her. JESUS, JOHN 8:7

Let anyone among you who is without sin, be the first to throw a stone at her.

Pure and genuine religion in the sight of God the Father means caring for orphans and widows in their distress and refusing to let the world corrupt you. JAMES 1:27

Not many years ago there were people in this country who would tell you that there are no absolute moral principles and that we should not presume to impose our principles on others, but of course the Vietnam War was absolutely immoral.

Apesar de ser crente à vinte e oito anos a Lei Moral ainda continua a ser, para mim, o maior sinal que aponta para Deus. Mais do que isso: aponta para um Deus que se preocupa com os seres humanos, para um Deus que é infinitamente bom e sagrado. p.169

We are supposed to be on the side of goodness in the sense that we need it, not that we are it.

If Christianity is anything, it's a refusal to see human behavior as ruled by the balance sheet. We're not supposed to see the things we do as adding up into piles of good and evil we can subtract from each according to some kind of calculus to tell us how, on balance, we're doing.

It's not what a man has but what a man is that's important.

I feel an obligation toward God to be as honest as I can. I'm human, sir, and I'll admit the Truth can be painful at times, and even a little elusive, but... as best as I can, I must speak the Truth and address things as they are. I don't feel I have any right to take the Truth and cut it up, rearrange it, select what I want and delete what I want just so it'll align with my politics or my Accounting Department. - John Barrett Jr.

So why should he even bother himself with this? The answer came to his mind: Because what happened to Annie Brewer was evil and evil prevails when good men do nothing.

Nature does not make mistakes. Right and wrong are human categories.

My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from nothing,' he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable 'the truth' can be.

When I need to identify rebels, I look for men with principles

Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, 'I am not the kind of person I want to be.' It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied.

There has never been a truly selfless rebel, just hypocrites—conscious hypocrites or unconscious hypocrites, it's all the same.

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. Something cannot emerge from nothing.

When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.

Is God troubled?" And her companion replied: "The sins of this universe would trouble anyone.

Arrakis makes us moral and ethical.

the drowning man who climbs on your shoulders to save himself is understandable—except when you see it happen in the drawing room.

Government and religion united, and breaking a law became sin. A smell of blasphemy arose like smoke around any questioning of governmental edicts.

Law always chooses sides on the basis of enforcement power. Morality and legal niceties have little to do with it when the real question is: Who has the clout?   —Bene