Quotes About Ethics

Finney allowed that "the business aims and practices of business men are almost universally an abomination in the sight of God.

In every single instance where pre-Constantinian Christian writers mention the topic of killing, they say that Christians do not do that, whether in abortion, capital punishment, or war.76 And Jesus's statement about loving enemies is one of the reasons cited.

The problem with making a deal with Trump wasn't that evangelicals shouldn't engage in politics. The problem was who they made a deal with, and the way in which they justified that deal.

Before I die I have given myself the modest task of convincing the Christians in America that as Christians we have a problem with war. I am not expecting the vast majority of Christians to be pacifists or even just warriors. I simply want them to see that there is a profound tension between our worship of a crucified messiah and the support of war.

God's Word teaches a very hard, disturbing truth. Those who neglect the poor and the oppressed are really not God's people at all—no matter how frequently they practice their religious rituals nor how orthodox are their creeds and confessions.

God thundered again and again through the prophets that worship in the context of mistreatment of the poor and disadvantaged is an outrage.

White evangelicals will be known as the people who defended the guy who defended the neo-Nazis.

Persons sin by participating in evil systems when they understand, at least to some degree, that the system displeases God but fail to act responsibly to change things.

Christians must be ready to lose politically rather than engage in dishonesty or corruption.

Great economic inequality inevitably produces injustice in a fallen world; therefore Christians must oppose it.

the first task of Christians is to live now the message and ethics of Jesus's new messianic kingdom. When surrounding society says we should abandon Jesus's teaching for the sake of short-term effectiveness, we must refuse—precisely because we know that the risen Jesus is now Lord of history and that his kingdom will finally prevail. If Jesus is truly Lord and Messiah, then in the long run his way will also be most effective.42

Russell Moore, head of the Southern Baptist's official public policy organization (the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission) said in The New York Times (September 17, 2015) that "to back Mr. Trump, these voters must repudiate everything they believe.

You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing for them or to them," publisher Malcolm S. Forbes once said. In Hillary Clinton's case, because she is so nasty to agents and hostile toward law enforcement officers and military officers in general, agents consider being assigned to her detail a form of punishment. In fact, agents say being on Hillary Clinton's detail is the worst duty assignment in the Secret Service.

I've noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born.

Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.

I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.

Someone must stand up to those who say, Here's the key, there's the Treasury, just take as many of those hard-earned tax dollars as you want.

We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.

I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

What does it mean to see the Lord of the universe lying by the roadside starving and walk by on the other side? We cannot know. We can only pledge, in fear and trembling, not to kill him again.

Es genügt ja nicht, Macht und Reichtum zu erlangen; die Menschen wollen tugendhaft erscheinen und sich tugendhaft fühlen.