Quotes about Morality

Proverbs 7:11-12—These verses describe, of all things, an adulteress. She is doing the opposite of the wise homemaker who tends to her house and housework. She is "out there," walking the streets, instead of being at home. "Her feet would not stay at home. At times she was outside, at times in the open square, lurking at every corner.

Kind hearts are more than coronets / And simple faith than Norman blood.

Live pure, speak true, right wrong, follow the King—Else, wherefore born?

If you live in such a manner as to stand the test of the last judgment, you can depend upon it that the world will not speak well of you.

The idea of monogamous same-sex relationships being acceptable to God emerges from an unwillingness to submit to the clear teaching of Scripture.

One said whatever would be of advantage; the question whether it was true no longer arose.

God creates a world containing evil and has a good reason for doing so.

God has ...created us with cognitive faculties designed to enable us to achieve true beliefs with respect to a wide variety of propositions - propositions about our immediate environment, about our own interior lives, about the thoughts and experiences of other persons, about our universe at large, about right and wrong, about the whole realm of abstracta - numbers, properties, propositions - ... and about himself.

According to the Stoics, all vice was resolvable into folly: according to the Christian principle, it is all the effect of weakness.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

We live in a world that is filled with filth and sleaze, a world that reeks of evil. You cannot afford that filthy poison to touch you. Stay away from it. Avoid it.