Quotes about Morality

Lived out consistently, postmodernism leads to complicity with evil and injustice.

The only basis for genuine human rights and dignity is a fully biblical worldview.

As long as Christianity is treated as "moral poetry" and "tales of consolation," it poses no threat to the sovereignty of secularism.

On one hand, Kant thought science led to the conclusion that humans are elements in a vast machine operating by the laws of physics. On the other hand, he said, to salvage morality, we must act as if we were free. And to ratify our moral standards, we must act as if God existed. And because morality makes no sense unless justice prevails in the end, we must act as if there were an afterlife.

This is the tragedy of the postmodern age. The things that matter most in life, that are necessary for a humane society—ideals like moral freedom, human dignity, even loving our own children—have been reduced to nothing but useful fictions. They are tossed into the attic, which becomes a convenient dumping ground for anything that a materialist paradigm cannot explain.

The only way to drive out bad culture is with good culture.

Christianity was permitted to tell Sunday school stories as object lessons to inspire morality, but it was not allowed to claim that those stories were true.

Nonviolent passive resistance is effective as long as your opposition adheres to the same rules as you do. But if peaceful protest is met with violence, its efficacy is at an end. For me, nonviolence was not a moral principle but a strategy; there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon.

I immediately regretted that last point because I have discovered that in discussions it never helps to take a morally superior tone to one's opponent.

Character is how you treat people when they can do nothing for you.

What's the point of doing something good if nobody's watching?

We must fight their falsehood with our truth, but we must also fight the falsehood in our truth.