Quotes about Morality
How easy it is to invent humanity, for anyone at all. What an available temptation.
— Margaret Atwood
A rebuke, a palpable rebuke! How dare she? He was already middle-aged when she was born! He could have been her father! He could have been her child molester!
— Margaret Atwood
Who can fathom the secrets of the human soul?" I said. "None of us is exempt from sin.
— Margaret Atwood
Now young lady,' he said to me, 'I'm not going to chastize you personally because I can see you are a nice girl and only the innocent means to this abominable end. But you will be so kind as to give these tracts to your employers. Who can tell but that their hearts may yet be softened? The propagation of drink and of drunkenness to excess is an iniquity, a sin against the Lord.
— Margaret Atwood
The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Unthankfulness is theft.
— Martin Luther
A thankful heart is the greatest virtue.
— Cicero
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue but the parent of all the other virtues.
— Cicero
Giving thanks to God for both His temporal and spiritual blessings in our lives is not just a nice thing to do - it is the moral will of God. Failure to give Him the thanks due Him is sin.
— Jerry Bridges
Every virtue divorced from thankfulness is maimed and limps along the spiritual road.
— John Henry Jowett
The time is always right to do what is right.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
People will not follow a leader with moral incongruities for long. Every time you compromise character you compromise leadership. The foundation of firm leadership is character.
— Bill Hybels