Quotes about Morality
There is nothing holy nor sacred to those who have abandoned God and reason in order to follow their perverse desires.
— Francois Rabelais
God, immortality, duty - how inconceivable the first, how unbelievable the second, how peremptory and absolute the third.
— George Eliot
Something good made something bad possible (though not inevitable). Humans, however, didn't use their freedom well. Instead of using it to honor God in friendship, they used it to rebel.
— Greg Koukl
I believe that God is totally moral, but nature, one of God's creatures, is not moral. Nature is blind.
— Harold S. Kushner
Morality is good, and is accepted of God, as far as it goes; but the difficulty is, it does not go far enough.
— Henry Ward Beecher
But Captain Vere was now again motionless, standing absorbed in thought. Again starting, he vehemently exclaimed, "Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet that angel must hang!
— Herman Melville
Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel must hang!
— Herman Melville
Our consciences are not infallible, and they can become warped or weakened if not kept aligned by the infallible Word of God.
— J. Oswald Sanders
I let God be the judge and I believe that we worship a just and fair God who won't punish innocent people unnecessarily.
— Jimmy Carter
I think God gives every one of us our own will, and unfortunately, some people choose to do evil things with it.
— Joel Osteen
If I lose at play, I blaspheme; if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So, God is always the loser.
— John Donne
Wherefore did he [God] create passions within us, pleasures round about us, but that these rightly tempered are the very ingredients of virtue?
— John Milton