Quotes About Morality

Teaching our children to be well-behaved, good citizens is proper as far as it goes. But we must never mistake this training for Christian nurture or discipline, nor should we mistake their acquiescence to our social mores as true Christian righteousness.

Anyone can see that intending and not acting when we can is not really intending, and loving and not doing good when we can is not really loving.

People who have intended and loved what is evil in the world intend and love what is evil in the other life, and then they no longer allow themselves to be led away from it. This is why people who are absorbed in evil are connected to hell and actually are there in spirit; and after death they crave above all to be where their evil is. So after death, it is we, not the Lord, who cast ourselves into hell.

It is amazing but true that it is easy for any of us to rebuke someone else who is intending to do something evil and say, "Don't do that—that's a sin!" And yet it is difficult for us to say the same thing to ourselves. The reason is that saying it to ourselves requires a movement of the will, but saying it to someone else requires only a low level of thought based on things we have heard.

What could be sweeter to us than to hear and persuade ourselves that we can be saved, even if we live like a savage beast? Even non-Christians see that this is false, and many of them shudder at Christian teachings when they observe how Christians live.

Forgiving yourself/ourselves gives you/us peace of mind and power/freedom to move forward and never backward. Yes of course, anyone who refuses to forgive himself/herself/others of his/her/their mistakes/offences/short-comings is unknowingly declining/degenerating morally/spiritually rather than increasing/appreciating.

Love holds the field. That is to say, love is and remains the most important virtue among every other moral virtues. Therefore, you've got to be loveful (full of love) for life and never hateful (full of hate). -Emeasoba George

The easiest thing that you can do is just to be good to anyone/everyone. Yes, even if your goodness is never appreciated, do good anyway.

To truly love one & all is a due i.e. it's a moral obligation required of you for life. So, endeavour to pay it over & over again.

Religion is the incinerator of the soul -

True moral elegance consists in the art of disguising one's victories as defeats.

In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.

I react like everyone else, even like those I most despise; but I make up for it by deploring every action I commit, good or bad.

Only the mediocre want to die of old age. Suffer, then, drink pleasure to its last dregs, cry or laugh, scream in despair or with joy, sing about death or love, for nothing will endure! Morality can only make life a long series of missed opportunities.

Shakespeare et Dostoievski font persister en vous le regret de n'etre pas un saint ou un criminel. Ces deux manieres de s'autodetruire...

P?catul este expresia religioas? a remu?c?rii.

If it is true that God dislikes taking sides, I should feel no awkwardness in His presence, so pleased would I be to imitate Him, to be like Him, in everything, "without opinion.

Avoir commis tous les crimes, hormis celui d'être père

P?catul este expresia religioas? a remu?c?rii, precum regretul expresia ei poetic?. Primul este o limit? superioar?; ultimul, una inferioar?

We should repeat to ourselves, every day: I am one of the billions dragging himself across the earth's surface. One, and no more. This banality justifies any conclusion, any behavior or action: debauchery, chastity, suicide, work, crime, sloth, or rebellion...Whence it follows that each man is right to do what he does.

He who is inclined to lust is merciful and tender-hearted; those who are inclined to purity are not so' (Saint John Climacus). It took a saint, neither more nor less, to denounce so distinctly and so vigorously not the lies but the very essence of Christian morality, and indeed of all morality.

There are hearts into which even God cannot look without losing his innocence.

Her insan?n içinde bir peygamber uyuklar ve o uyand???nda, dünyadaki kötülük biraz daha artar...

Once we begin to want, we fall under the jurisdiction of the Devil.