Top 1200 Christian Morality Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Stand for something. Don't quest for popularity at the expense of morality and ethics and honesty.

Morality [or ethics] is not a subject; it is a life put to the test in dozens of moments.

I think crime is probably driven more by morality than anything else.

Our founding fathers recognized that morality was the foundation of a successful republic.

We have no hesitation in declaring that we are a military nation- in the cause of Kodo and the highest morality.

If we move in the direction of biblial absolutism how can we escape turning the New Testament into a Christian Torah and the gospel into a new law? Once we do that, religious fascism with all its sectarian ugliness cannot be far away. Far better a mistaken Christian (a heretic) who has somehow caught the Spirit of Christ, than an orthodox Protestant who thinks that the Spirit is mediated to him through the letter of correct theology.

If you believe in subjective morality, why do you lock your doors at night?

What marriage is to morality, a properly conducted licensed liquor traffic is to sobriety.

Children often have a much stronger concept of morality than adults.

Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency of sin.

Morality consists of suspecting other people of not being legally married.

The greatest works of literature seem to embody both "art" and "morality".

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions.

Camp is a solvent of morality. It neutralizes moral indignation, sponsors playfulness.

Only religious fanatics and totalitarian states equate morality with legality.

It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.

I believe that while art is always beyond morality, it is never above it.

Concern for morality makes every work of the imagination false and stupid.

Keep guns out of inner cities-but also problem of morality.

The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live.

Honesty and interest are as intimately connected in the public as in the private code of morality.

It is the great business of every Christian to save souls. People complain that they do not know how to take hold of this matter. Why, the reason is plain enough; they have never studied it. They have never taken the proper pains to qualify themselves for the work. If you do not make it a matter of study, how you may successfully act in building up the kingdom of Christ, you are acting a very wicked and absurd part as a Christian.

The Christian gospel is a message of freedom through grace and we must stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free. But what shall we do with our freedom? The Apostle Paul grieved that some of the believers of his day took advantage of their freedom and indulged the flesh in the name of Christian liberty. They threw off discipline, scorned obedience and made gods of their own bellies.

Secular thinkers have no more been able to work free of the centuries-old Judeo-Christian culture than Christian theologians were able to work free of their inheritance of classical and pagan thought. The process... has not been the deletion and replacement of religious ideas but rather the assimilation and reinterpretation of religious ideas.

I condemn Christianity; I bring against the Christian Church the most terrible of all accusations that an accuser has ever had in his mouth. It is, to me, the greatest of all imaginable corruptions; it seeks to work the ultimate corruption, the worse possible corruption. The Christian Church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie, and every integrity into baseness of soul.

I go to Chinese Christian community. Jesus looks Chinese. I go to Japanese Christian community. Jesus looks Japanese. I go to Brazilian Christian community. Jesus looks Brazilian. How come in America Jesus looks white?

Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.

The population problem has no technical solution; it requires a fundamental extension in morality.

Even in this glowering age, morality animates our lives with meaning.

Any legitimate religion consists of rules of morality linked by love. That's it.

Atheistic morality is not impossible, but it will never answer our purpose.

Pure morality is only an instinctive adjustment which the soul makes.

The so-called new morality is too often the old immorality condoned.

We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me

There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.

I do not believe it right for one group to impose its vision of morality on an entire society.

Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality

I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me.

Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.

Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality.

The Christian god can easily be pictured as virtually the same god as the many ancient gods of past civilizations. The Christian god is a three headed monster cruel vengeful and capricious. If one wishes to know more of this raging three headed beast like god one only needs to look at the caliber of people who say they serve him. They are always of two classes fools and hypocrites.

Morality is always higher than law and we cannot forget this ever.

The Christian who desires to follow Jesus carrying his cross must bear in mind that the name "Christian" means "learner or imitator of Christ" and that if he wishes to bear that noble title worthily he must above all do as Christ charges us in the Gospel: We must oppose or deny ourselves, take up the cross, and follow him.

Prayer, fasting, vigils, and all other Christian practices, however good they may be in themselves, certainly do not constitute the aim of our Christian life: they are but the indispensable means of attaining that aim. For the true aim of the Christian life is the acquisition of the Holy Spirit of God. As for fasts, vigils, prayer and almsgiving, and other good works done in the name of Christ, they are only the means of acquiring the Holy Spirit of God. Note well that it is only good works done in the name of Christ that bring us the fruits of the Spirit.

I was raised in an open-minded home. I was raised a Christian, but I was raised open-minded Christian - one to accept people, love people, not pass judgment.

All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.

People have been raised in a morality that says, "If it feels all right for you, it's probably OK."

Religion is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken.

Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.

Absolute morality is the regulation of conduct in such a way that pain shall not be inflicted.

Morality crusades unite military regimes and religious zealots alike.

Conscription is the vitality of a nation, the purification of its morality, and the real foundations of all its habits

The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed.

Man's sense of Morality tends to decrease as his Power increases

Because I am a Christian, therefore, every day in which I do not penetrate more deeply into the knowledge of God's Word in Holy Scripture is a lost day for me. I can only move forward with certainty upon the firm ground of the Word of God. And, as a Christian, I learn to know the Holy Scriptures in no other way than by hearing the Word preached and by prayerful meditation.

Deterrence itself is not a preeminent value; the primary values are safety and morality.

Let us with Caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.

The morality of customs,the spirit of the laws, produces the man emancipated from the law.

The study and practice of law ... does not dissolve the obligations of morality or of religion.