Quotes about Morality

Good societies can survive people doing immoral things. But a good society can not survive if it calls immoral things moral.

My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

Monotheism was not a specifically Jewish revolution because it predated Abraham by several generations. The Jewish revolution was ethical monotheism

The poor who commit murder, rape and robbery are not only not starving, they have far more material things than the word 'poverty' suggests.

If doing the bad thing never brought benefits, no one would ever do

The believer has to account for the existence of unjust suffering; the atheist has to account for the existence of everything else.

If you build a society in which children honor their parents, your society will long survive. And the corollary is: a society in which children do not honor their parents is doomed to self-destruction. In our time, this connection between honoring parents and maintaining civilization is not widely recognized.

The most important thing to understand when it comes to our baser parts is not only how normal and natural it is to have them but that there is nothing wrong in having them. Bad is doing bad, not thinking bad (there are exceptions—see the next chapter), and it is certainly not merely having bad tendencies.

Romans 14:23, which says, "Whatever is not from faith is sin".

What about evil, you may ask? Aren't some people just evil, just monsters, and aren't such people just unforgivable? I do believe there are monstrous and evil acts, but I do not believe those who commit such acts are monsters or evil. To relegate someone to the level of monster is to deny that person's ability to change and to take away that person's accountability for his or her actions and behavior.

To be neutral in a situation of injustice is to have chosen sides already. It is to support the status quo.

But just as we do not forgive for others, we also do not forgive for God.