Quotes About Morality

The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

A truly moral health care system should start out by covering all of its citizens with basic health care. It would not be seduced by its technology and fancy buildings.

He's evil, and the only thing that stops evil is death.

The very concept of sin comes from the Bible. Christianity offers to solve a problem of its own making! Would you be thankful to a person who cut you with a knife in order to sell you a bandage?

In serving the wicked, expect no reward, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains.

Unthankfulness is theft.

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all the other virtues. [Lat., Gratus animus est una virtus non solum maxima, sed etiam mater virtutum onmium reliquarum.]

A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all the other virtues.

Giving thanks to God for both His temporal and spiritual blessings in our lives is not just a nice thing to do - it is the moral will of God. Failure to give Him the thanks due Him is sin.

Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road.

Lord, for the erring thoughtNot into evil wrought:Lord, for the wicked willBetrayed and baffled still:For the heart from itself kept,Our thanksgiving accept.

The time is always right to do what is right.

Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good.

I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. There comes a time when silence becomes betrayal.

We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.

What's important at this time is to re-clarify the difference between hero and villain.

If we were to remove the Bible from public schools we would be wasting so much time punishing crimes and taking so little pains to prevent them.

Killing must feel good to God too. He does it all the time. Did God feel good about that? He felt powerful.

God is more concerned with our character than with our achievements. Achievements have importance only in the realm of time. Character is eternal. It determines what we will be through eternity.

There comes a time in your life when you focus solely on what you believe is right, regardless of what everybody else is doing.

History has shown us time and again that what is right is not what is popular.

We live in a time when complex ethical questions are easily subordinated to the demands of efficiency, profit maximization, and maintenance or furthering of political power.