Quotes about Morality
If the church remains self-righteously aloof from failures, irreligious and immoral people, it cannot enter justified into God's kingdom. But if it is constantly aware of its guilt and sin, it can live in joyous awareness of forgiveness. The promise has been given to it that anyone who humbles himself will be exalted.9
— Brennan Manning
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious convictions.
— Brennan Manning
The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.
— Brennan Manning
Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.
— Henry David Thoreau
Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resigns his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward.
— Henry David Thoreau
It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.
— Henry David Thoreau
Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn.
— Henry David Thoreau
As for Doing-good...I have tried it fairly, and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.
— Henry David Thoreau
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
— Henry David Thoreau
It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even to most enormous wrong; he may still properly have other concerns to engage him; but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gives it no thought longer, not to give it practically his support.
— Henry David Thoreau
By turns our purity inspires and our impurity casts us down.
— Henry David Thoreau
I will not through humility become the devil's attorney
— Henry David Thoreau