Quotes about Ethics
Hypocrisy is a proud desire to appear better than you are. Be thoroughly humbled and vile in your own eyes, and hypocrisy is done.
— Richard Baxter
It is a palpable error of some ministers, who make such a disproportion between their preaching and their living; who study hard to preach exactly, and study little or not at all to live exactly.
— Richard Baxter
Of two duties we must choose the greater, though of two sins we must choose neither (556).
— Richard Baxter
What else is the law made for, but to be the rule of life, and the rule of judgment? Read Psal. i. and xv.; Matt. v. vii. and xxv.,
— Richard Baxter
Oh! what a potent instrument for Satan is a misguided conscience(93)!
— Richard Baxter
Hard studies, much knowledge, and excellent preaching are but a more glorious hypocritical sinning if the ends are not right.
— Richard Baxter
That physician is no better than a murderer, that negligently delayeth till his patient be dead or past cure (389).
— Richard Baxter
Good ends will not justify evil actions. What
— Richard Baxter
Americans believe that the bottom line isn't everything, it's the only thing, and America is strangling on that lack of vision."13 Bennis also noted, "It isn't either a bull or a bear market anymore, it's a pig market."14
— Richard Blackaby
religion either produces the very best people or the very worst.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
The good, the true, and the beautiful are always their own best argument for themselves—by themselves—and in themselves.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better.
— Fr. Richard Rohr