Quotes About Ethics

We have changed our moral code to fit our behavior instead of changing our behavior to harmonize with God's moral code.

How often do we lie simply because we are trying to build ourselves up in the eyes of others? How often do we gossip because we want to appear "in the know,"or because we are trying to make ourselves appear better than someone else? The Bible's command is clear: ["Have regard for good things in the sight of all men" (Romans 12:17 NKJV)].

Materialism and self-centeredness are the great vices of our age.

We do not need a new moral order; the world desperately needs the tried and tested moral order that God handed down at Sinai.

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

What happens when lying and stealing and immorality and murder become the norm? The result can be summarized in one word: chaos.

When everyone does what is right in his own eyes, there is no possibility of order and peace.

The devil has successfully fooled many churches, convincing them to follow the world. Biblical standards have been compromised by convenient social theories.

Every word that [Jesus] spoke was historically true. Every word that He spoke was scientifically true. Every word that He spoke was ethically true. There were no loopholes in the moral conceptions and statements of Jesus Christ. His ethical vision was wholly correct, correct in the age in which He lived and correct in every age that has followed it.

Moral living sometimes demands difficult choices. It requires selflessness.

A professor at the University of Michigan said to me: "As soon as we create life in a test tube, we won't need God anymore." I answered: "This happened once before when man ruled God out and proposed the Tower of Babel. It ended in frustration, confusion, and judgment.

The fact that immorality is rampant throughout the nation doesn't make it right!

It is not the temptations you have, but the decision you make about them that counts.

The Ten Commandments are just as valid today as they were when God gave them. They reflect the moral character of God, and they also provide the foundation of right living with others.

In the last essay he wrote before he died, great Christian apologist C. S. Lewis said, "We have no right to happiness; only an obligation to do our duty." Of course it is in our duty that happiness comes. Try it.

Science is learning to control everything but man.

The blessing of knowledge becomes a curse when we pervert it.

One result of family failure has been the loss of dignity. No better example can be found than in the use of language. [Language has been reduced to] a four-letter word in movies, on television, in comedy routines, and in real life.

Today we have more knowledge than at any other time in history. In seconds our laptops or PCs can call up information about a topic that would have taken years to collect. Young people graduate with more knowledge than ever before—but in spite of their knowledge, they are confused, bewildered, frustrated, and without moral moorings.

You can put a public school and university in the middle of every block of every city in America—but you will never keep America from rotting morally by mere intellectual education.

Before one can know what is right and wrong, he must first align himself with God. Only then is one in a position to do right.

A godlikeness of character is the Christian's proper heritage in this earthly walk.

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, in small things as well as in big things.

When something brings profit or pleasure to us, we are inclined to call evil good, even if we know it is dead wrong.