Quotes about Morality

Even God cannot make us love him. "Forced love" is a meaningless impossibility, like "virtuous sin".

That's why contraception is wrong by nature: it's a limit, a "Wait! Hold! No! Not quite! We won't give each other Everything")

St. Augustine says, "If God is, why is there evil? But if God is not, why is there good?

Morality flows from metaphysics because goodness flows from God.

manifests a good person, a good character, a good habit, and also because good deeds gradually form good habits, good character, good persons.

A habit is a stable disposition to act in a certain way, good or evil. Virtues are good habits; vices are bad habits.

Second, the origin of evil is not the Creator but the creature's freely choosing sin and selfishness.

Christians are good citizens, and take human laws very seriously, for religious reasons, not just for secular reasons. That's why they are better citizens than atheists, and certainly better citizens than moral relativists and subjectivists: they have stronger motives for obedience.

we have that the animal does not: reason and free will, or free choice.

4) But only man knows consciously and rationally, and only man's loves can be conscious and rational and responsible through free will.

why contraception is not only wrong but sacrilegious:

Read Alexander Solzhenitsyn's 1978 Harvard commencement address on that one.)