Quotes About Ethics

We are always making God our accomplice so that we may legalize our own inequities.

Suicide is not abominable because God prohibits it; God prohibits it because it is abominable.

We are all God's creatures-that we pray to God for mercy and justice while we continue to eat the flesh of animals that are slaughtered on our account is not consistent.

There are two restraints which God has laid upon human nature, shame and fear; shame is the weaker, and has place only in those in whom there are some reminders of virtue.

To secure integrity there must a lofty sense of duty and a deep responsibility to future times as well as to God.

I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.

Even if it were true that we need God to be moral, it would of course not make God's existence more likely, merely more desirable (many people cannot tell the difference)

Zounds! sir, you are one of those that will not serve God if the devil bid you.

I have always considered "Pascal's Wager" a questionable bet to place. Any God worth "believing in" would surely prefer an honest agnostic to a calculating hypocrite.

The Rudderless World is not shaped by vague metaphysical Forces. It is not God who kills the Children. Not Fate that butchers them or Destiny that feeds them to the Dogs. ... It´s us. Only us.

I as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity, as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.

Wickedness comes to its height by degrees. He that dares say of a less sin, Is it not a little one? will ere long say of a greater, Tush, God regards it not!

He have his goodness now. God forbid I take it from him!

Conscience has nothing to do as lawgiver or judge; but is a witness against me if I do wrong, and which approves if I do right. To act against conscience is to act against reason and God's Law.

I can't help but note that God is being useful to a lot of people trying to do harm to one another.

A nation, as an individual, has duties to fulfill appointed by God and His moral law.

It is highly convenient to believe in the infinite mercy of God when you feel the need of mercy, but remember also his infinite justice.

Human beings judge one another by their external actions. God judges them by their moral choices.

God is on the side of virtue; for whoever dreads punishment suffers it, and whoever deserves it, dreads it .

If you don't believe in God, then where is your moral barometer?

God grants an easy death only to the just.

The idea of God grew side by side with the idea of materialism.

I believe in both a creative and personal God, a divinely ordered universe, that man has an innate moral sense, and that Jesus was a great moral teacher, perhaps the greatest the world has witnessed.

Stamps God's own name upon a lie just made, To turn a penny in the way of trade.