Quotes About Ethics

People will use their religion to justify virtually anything.

If religion is onlya garment of Christianityand even this garment has looked very different at different timesthen what is religionless Christianity?

Wondering if God loves us when we're cheating? Oh, but why he lets us feel things, if it's wrong.

No leader, especially a religious leader, should have the right to question another man's religion or faith.

Those who are in love with the present can be cruel and corrupt but not genuinely vicious. They cannot be methodically and consistently ruthless.

If the gods do evil then they are not gods.

Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.

I'm personally a nonbeliever, so I'm struggling with if we really need religion.

I think science and religion should be separate.

The purpose of religion is tocontrol yourself, not to criticiseothers.

The true religion is to be posited not in the knowledge or confession of what God allegedly does or has done for our salvation, but in what we must do to become worthy of this.

There was never law or sect or opinion did so much magnify goodness as the Christian religion doth.

If men are so wicked with religion what would they be without it?

A persons character is shown through their actions in life NOT where they sit on Sunday.

Immorality is the word we use to describe people that are not sinning the same way we are.

You didn't learn the Bible as a Fundamentalist. You learned fragments of Old Testament legalism mixed with Behaviorism & Nietzschean ethics

Religion is treasured when it brings goodness out of a person.

We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.

Religion is a way of walking not a way of talking.

A New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing anything it just keeps you from enjoying it.

Conscience: That which makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does.

His clear conscience is a result of a poor memory.

A good life is the only religion.

There was something called Christianity.