Quotes About Morality

Applying the axioms of physical science to human life has something reprehensible to it.

Agreements about what is good or not, are usually not worth much. It is very much like art, is it not an art to lead a good life?

Not only our moral life, but even our use of theoretical reason - on which we rely in rationally inquiring into nature - presupposes that we are free.

Christian - One who follows the teachings of Christ insofar as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin.

Taking the life of another is always a moral crime.

It's up to me if I decide to do what I think is right.

The State of Grace and the Life of Sin are incompatibilities.

Science is no substitute for virtue; the heart is as necessary for a good life as the head.

There's a way of life, there's a way of death. Which way are you on?

Truly a legend in our time, John Templeton understands that the real measure of a person's success in life is not financial accomplishment but moral integrity and inner character.

Everyone in daily life carries such a heavy mixed burden on his own conscience that he is reluctant to penalize those who have been caught.

Being good is something that one must choose over and over again, every day, throughout the day, for the rest of one's life.

If you cross-section anyone's life from one angle and then another, what constitutes goodness looks different each time. It's not an absolute.

I can't imagine it now, but I must've been innocent at some time in my life. A baby don't just get itself born bad, do it?

Be purity of life the test, leave to the heart, to heaven the rest.

Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life.

You have to maintain integrity at all times during your life.

It's just so much more fun to play bad than good. Plus it's just good to get that out of your system so it doesn't show up in your personal life.

You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.

As long as you're living right, then you don't have to worry about what people see.

Progressivism is essentially about privatizing morality and socializing the costs of immorality, in such a way that big business can profit from the former and big government can profit from the latter.

Third, as Brian Davies has emphasized, much discussion of the problem of evil seems to presuppose that God is a kind of moral agent who has certain duties which (so it is alleged) he has failed to live up to. But this way of thinking simply makes no sense given Aquinas's conception of God.

If you make the effort to work through the ideas I'll be setting out in this book, then even if you do not end up agreeing with me that the existence of God, the immortality of the soul, and the natural law conception of morality are rationally unavoidable, you will understand how reasonable people could be convinced of this.

without God we are left with a choice of succumbing to megalomania or erotomania.