Quotes About Moral

No man of honor ever quite lives up to his code, any more than a moral man manages to avoid sin.

There are continents and seas in the moral world, to which every man is an isthmus or inlet, yet unexplored by him.

Much of a man's character will be found betokened in his backbone. I would rather feel your spine than your skull, whoever you are. A thin joist of a spine never yet upheld a full and noble soul.

He who preserves a man's life against his will does the same thing as if he slew him.

The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.

When plunder becomes a way of life, men create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.

Other things being equal, ill will is worse than moral indifference (as in causing suffering for money vs causing suffering to cause suffering), though things are rarely equal.

Diluting the money supply with paper is the moral equivalent of diluting the milk supply with water.

God's goal is to establish His righteousness on this earth

The word good has many meanings.

I didn't fully realize it at the time, but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience - to help produce, in the next generation, more Mother Teresas and less Hitlers.

Every free action has two causes that come together to produce it. One is moral, the will that determines the act; the other is physical, the power that executes the will to act.

It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won't chime.

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

But little white lies here and there is human nature. Everybody does that.

Humans have made a huge hole in nature in the last 10,000 years. [With de-extinction,] we have the ability now, and maybe the moral obligation, to repair some of the damage.

The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.

When we're in our right minds, we are hopeful. Because the arc of the moral universe does bend toward justice, nature does bend toward healing, and the heart does bend toward love.

Man's want of original righteousness and of holy affections toward God, and the corruption of his moral nature and his bias toward evil is called depravity

Sin is any failure to conform to the moral law of God in act, attitude, or nature

One of the ways in which parenting is a learning experience and an opportunity for moral growth is that we learn as parents that we don't choose the kind of child that we have.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Patience is moral elasticity.

Patience that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.