Quotes about Morality
The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Such sins, even if they do not kill all grace in us, do harm, nevertheless; and though they are only venial in themselves, they make us apt, ready, and inclined to lose grace and to fall into mortal sin.
— Johannes Tauler
Those of you who love the Lord should hate evil.
— Dennis Prager
It must be less wicked to love the wrong person than not to love anybody at all.
— Edith Wharton
Without that freedom to sin there is also no freedom to love.
— Peter Kreeft
The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality.
— Albert Schweitzer
Love is more just than justice.
— Henry Ward Beecher
If a shameless woman expects to be defiled and then dies of her fierce love because you do not consent, will chastity also be homicide?
— St. Augustine
But is it what we love, or how we love, That makes true good?
— George Eliot
Everyone has conscience enough to hate; few have religion enough to love.
— Henry Ward Beecher
License they mean when they cry Liberty; For who loves that, must first be wise and good.
— John Milton
I think moral outrage is born not of anger but of love. It comes from the highest in us, not from a low-level sense of anger or cynicism.
— Marianne Williamson