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Quotes About Ethics

All the dry ethics of the world turn to dust because apart from God they are lifeless.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
In God's pattern of justice, He takes the risk of the guilty going free but not the innocent being punished.
~ Max Anders
... God is going to judge righteously... . what did each one do in relation to what he or she knew to be right of wrong?
~ Pat Robertson
It is a virtue to admit ignorance when you don't know, but not to wallow in ignorance as an end in itself. People say if we don't believe god is watching over us, we abandon morality. Are they right?
~ Richard Dawkins
The bible says that all people, not just believers, possess part of the image of God; that is why murder and abortion are wrong.
~ Rick Warren
To not believe in God is to know that it falls to us to make the world a better place.
~ Sam Harris
Atheism comes into rather a bad press and I suppose I'd rather describe myself as a humanist... I don't believe in God. I don't believe there is a God.
~ Stephen Fry
Choose your words carefully. They reveal your inner character.
~ Jim George
I contend that whatever does not raise the moral standard of the church or community has been a revival from God.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
Because God and the devil could be one and the same thing, and everybody understood it in his own way.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman: a gentleman, in the vulgar superficial way of understanding the word, is the Devil's Christian.
~ Augustus Hare
If God thinks proportionality is fair who are we to say that it is unfair?
~ Benjamin Carson
Things that Hillary Clinton advocates are antithetical to Christian values: killing babies, redefining institutions established by God.
~ Benjamin Carson
God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice, either here or hereafter.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Do your duty, and don't swerve from it. Do that which your conscience tells you to be right, and leave the consequences to God.
~ Benjamin Haydon
Conscience is ... the God dwelling in us.
~ Benjamin Whichcote
God imposeth no Law of Righteousness upon us which He doth not observe Himself.
~ Benjamin Whichcote
So when I hear a guy after a game-winning home run say or gesture that God was on his side, I think to myself, 'He's saying God screwed the pitcher.
~ Bobby Knight
Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask.
~ C. S. Lewis
There might never be that moment when everyone says, "Oh my God, big data is awful."
~ Cathy O'Neil
The Parliament in Canada and the Congress in Washington do not have the authority to revoke the commandments of God, or to modify or amend them in any way.
~ Dallin H. Oaks
He who has a living faith in God will not do evil deeds with name of God on his lips.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
On the day of my judgment, when I stand before God, and He asks me why did I kill one of his true miracles, what am I gonna say? That it was my job? My job?
~ Stephen King
Is God to blame for what I myself have done?
~ Swami Vivekananda