Top 1200 Christian Morality Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

Not only are the varieties of morality innumerable, but some of them are conflicting with each other.

[Islam] inspires countless individuals to lead lives of honesty, integrity, and morality.

Morality was probably the invention of unattractive men. Whom else does it benefit really

There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.

...I couldn't but surmise that the devil, looking at the cruel wars that Christianity has occasioned, the persecutions, the tortures Christian has inflicted on Christian, the unkindness, the hypocracy, the intolerance, must consider the balance sheet with complacency. And when he remembers that it has laid upon mankind the bitter burden of the sense of sin that has darkened the beauty of the starry night and cast a baleful shadow on the passing plesures of a world to be enjoyed, he must chuckle as he murmurs: give the devil his due.

We are pantheists when we study nature, polytheists when we write poetry, monotheists in our morality.

It is important for us to make a distinction between the spiritual fruit of joy and the cultural concept of happiness. A Christian can have joy in his heart while there is still spiritual depression in his head. The joy that we have sustains us through these dark nights and is not quenched by spiritual depression. The joy of the Christian is one that survives all downturns in life.

The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.

It is true that legality is not morality, and sticking to the law is necessary for good citizenship, but it is not sufficient.

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

Optimism is a wish without warrant; Christian hope is a certainty, guaranteed by God himself. Optimism reflects ignorance as to whether good things will ever actually come. Christian hope expresses knowledge that every day of his life, and every moment beyond it, the believer can say with truth, on the basis of God's own commitment, that the best is yet to come.

To enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others; this is true morality.

Morality is a matter of money. Poor people cannot afford to have morals. So they have religion.

Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.

When poverty is more disgraceful than even vice, is not morality cut to the quick?

I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.

Modern societies march towards morality in proportion as they leave religion behind.

I can't understand why culture cops try and impose their brand of morality on others.

It is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality. What is true is that the artist's business is not that of the policeman.

A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.

Morality is a luxury we can't afford out here. There's no right or wrong, just survival or death.

Christianity means community through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ. No Christian community is more or less than this. Whether it is a brief, single encounter or the daily fellowship of years, Christian community is only this. We belong to one another only through and in Jesus Christ.

My second Christian name is John. Good solid bourgeois Christian name, like my first name, Peter, a rock. Minerals. Build on rock, rocks, uranium. Peter and John were two of the twelve apostles - arguable the two most significant. Were my parents hedging their bets?

A charity which knows only how to give money is not yet Christian love. You will be free of guilt only when you also give your time, your energy, and your resourcefulness to help end such abuses for good, and when you allow nothing that lies hidden in the storehouse of your Christian religion to remain unused against the cancer that is destroying the vitality of our society in such alarming ways.

The Christian religion is only for one who needs infinite help, therefore only for one who feels an infinite need. The whole planet cannot be in greater anguish than a single soul. The Christian faith - as I view it - is the refuge in this ultimate anguish. To whom it is given in this anguish to open his heart, instead of contracting it, accepts the means of salvation in his heart.

A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.

I genuinely don't like Los Angeles. L.A. is this little petri dish of lack of morality.

The moral man is as guilty as the rest. His morality cannot save him.

Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches.

Any virtue systematically applied becomes a vice. Morality is attention, not system.

The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion.

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

To the extent that laws are founded on morality and on logic, they can lead men's hearts and minds.

Call me old-fashioned, but I believe that morality is not just a matter of opinion.

After I have said what is required by my vanity and my morality, I may find a moment for Truth.

There’s no more morality in world affairs, fundamentally, than there was at the time of Genghis Khan.

Morality or duty never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others.

Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.

The morality of a [political] party must grow out of the conscience and the participation of the voters.

Morality measured in centimeters: all mothers believe that only their daughters dance decently.

An important species of pleasure, and therewith the source of morality, arises out of habit.

The recognition of the sanctity of the life of every man is the first and only basis of all morality.

From behind Lissa, I heard Christian say, "Worst. Timing. Ever." Adrian studied Lissa and then looked at Christain sprawling on the bed on the far side of the suite. "Huh," Adrian said, letting himself in. "So that's how you're going to fix the family problem. Little Dragomirs. Good idea." Christian sat up and strolled toward them. "Yeah, that's exactly it. You're interrupting official Council business.

The tenets of [the Christian life] seem paradoxes to carnal men; as first, that a Christian is the only freeman, and other men are slaves; that he is the only rich man, though never so poor in the world; that he is the only beautiful man, though outwardly never so deformed; that he is the only happy man in the midst of all his miseries.

So, it becomes the devil's business to keep the Christian's spirit imprisoned. He knows that the believing and justified Christian has been raised up out of the grave of his sins. From that point on, Satan works that much harder to keep us bound and gagged, in our own grave clothes. He knows that if we continue in this kind of bondage...we are not much better off than when we were spiritually dead.

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

Those who wish to base their morality literally on the Bible have either not read it or not understood it.

Morality is more than possible without God, it is entirely independent of him.

Do not depend upon the morality of a person until you have seen him behave while in anger.

The conventions of society are all in the interests of morality. If you're conventional, you'll be good, in a negative sense, of course.

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.

When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality.

Watergate is the great liberal illusion that you can have public virtue without private morality.

Only Atheists have morals, the religious have reward and punishment. That's not morality, that's sucking up.

I suspect that relatively few people will sit down and read 1250 pages [ of The Enduring Authority of the Christian Scriptures.] all the way through from cover to cover. There may be some, but not everybody. But there are many, many, many different Christian, theological, pastoral, specialisms that are covered by one section or another of the book and this will become, therefore, a resource volume for many people.

A moral person is someone who accepts the consequences of their own morality, not those of others.

It is a prejudice to think that morality is more favourable to the development of reason than immorality.

Morality is the struggle of the bound will to get free and is the proof that we have come from perfection. . . .

I think that as human beings we tend to compartmentalize, and we have a selective morality based on the situation we're in.