Quotes about Morality

My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference.

It's hard to think seriously about grace until you understand that you've failed morally and will someday stand accountable before a holy God.

Satan greets people in hell by saying: "You'll find that there's no right or wrong here—just what works for you.

Craig summarized his next point succinctly at the outset: "A third factor pointing toward God is the existence of objective moral values in the universe. If God does not exist, then objective moral values do not exist.

Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable.

Moral evolution, I think, is understanding how we should behave, how we should treat others, understanding justice, understanding the need for a more equitable society.

You're like Jesus," Susie said, more positively now that she had said the words out loud. "He doesn't like it when people be bad either. An' He doesn't like to send them away—out of heaven. But it would spoil heaven for everybody else if He let bad people in there." Wynn said nothing, but his eyes looked misty as he reached out to tousle the little black head on his way to the bedroom for his slippers.

O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!

We need all races of men, and decent women, to stand up for what's right, drop anger, and live upright.

I don't think anybody cares about unwed mothers unless they're black or poor. The question is not morality, the question is money. That's what we're upset about.

All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

The New Testament persistently presses us upward, toward higher motives for being good.