Quotes about Morality
Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the oaths . . . ?
— George Washington
Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
— St. Augustine
Without religion this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company, I mean Hell.
— John Adams
Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who have possessed these pieties have wrought great evil.
— A Powell Davies
Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.
— Laurence Sterne
In France, religion had been considered the enemy of liberty, but in America, as George Washington expressed it, religion and morality were the 'twin pillars of freedom.'
— James Kennedy
All true religion must stand on true morality.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Religion is the fruit of the Spirit, a Christian character, a true life.
— Henry Ward Beecher
For many, religion has to do with what we are allowed to do and not allowed to do. In the end, that doesn't bear fruit.
— Henri Nouwen
Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.
— Charles Dickens
If religion does not make us better people, it will make us very much worse. And of all the bad men who have lived, the religious "bad man" is the worst of all.
— CS Lewis
Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.
— George Bernard Shaw