Quotes About Morality

The son who delights his father by his good actions; the wife who seeks only her husband?s good; the friend who is the same in prosperity and adversity?these three things are the reward of virtue.

Trees loaded with fruit are bent down; the clouds when charged with fresh rain hang down near the earth: even so good men are not uplifted through prosperity. Such is the natural character of the liberal.

Beings are the owners of their actions, the heirs of their actions; they spring from their actions, are bound to their actions, and are supported by their actions. Whatever deeds they do, good or bad, of those they shall be heirs.

The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.

Most men are wicked.

Do not praise an undeserving man because of his riches.

Righteousness exalteth a nation.

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.

And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.

Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled.

And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.

Whoever steals an ox or a sheep and slaughters it or sells it must pay back five head of cattle for the ox and four sheep for the sheep. If a thief is caught breaking in at night and is struck a fatal blow, the defender is not guilty of bloodshed; but if it happens after sunrise, the defender is guilty of bloodshed. Anyone who steals must certainly make restitution, but if they have nothing, they must be sold to pay for their theft.

Blessed are they who maintain justice, who constantly do what is right.

When a man walks in integrity and justice, happy are his children after him.

Wealth is useless on the day of wrath, but virtue saves from death.

You shall not steal, neither deal falsely, neither lie one to another.

Lying lips are abomination to the LORD: but they that deal truly are his delight.

But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

The righteous care about justice for the poor, but the wicked have no such concern.

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.

Thou shalt not steal.

When justice is done, it brings joy to the righteous but terror to evildoers.

He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.