Top 1200 Christian Morality Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

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Last updated on April 19, 2025.
The system of morality to be gathered from the ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel.
Each man must grant himself the emotions that he needs and the morality that suits him.
A child is not a Christian child, not a Muslim child, but a child of Christian parents or a child of Muslim parents. This latter nomenclature, by the way, would be an excellent piece of consciousness-raising for the children themselves. A child who is told she is a 'child of Muslim parents' will immediately realize that religion is something for her to choose -or reject- when she becomes old enough to do so.
Morality depends on individual freedom, and it requires some sense to know where to draw the line. — © Mohanlal
Morality depends on individual freedom, and it requires some sense to know where to draw the line.
Secularism denounces supernaturalism and promotes a nonreligious or antireligious basis of social organization and morality.
There is no religion in the world where there is a possibility of spiritual development outside of the context of that religion. This is only a modern invention. For example, Christian mystics were also Christians. They also went to Church and followed Christian laws. Hindu mystics were practicing Hindus; they didn't kill cows and have steak. They follow the Hindu laws and so on and so forth down the line and Sufism is no exception.
Errors of knowledge are not breaches of morality; no proper moral code can demand infallibility or omniscience.
It does feel like sometimes that I'm the outcast. Hip-hop doesn't want to mess with me because I'm Christian and Christian music doesn't want to mess with me because I'm hip-hop.
It is only by dispelling the clouds and phantoms of religion that we shall discover truth, reason and morality.
In some ways I'm quite strict - in terms of morality, honesty, things like that. And manners.
[Virginity is] a cultural ideology that conflates passivity - the act of not having sex - with superior morality.
Today (1950), the hatred of the Moslem countries against the West is becoming hatred against Christianity itself. Although the statesmen have not yet taken it into account, there is still grave danger that the temporal power of Islam may return and, with it, the menace that it may shake off a West which has ceased to be Christian, and affirm itself as a great anti-Christian world Power.
I think morality is so individual and personal, and people draw their own lines of what that means for them.
Science cannot destroy the consciousness of freedom, without which there is no morality and no art, but it can refute it. — © Isaiah Berlin
Science cannot destroy the consciousness of freedom, without which there is no morality and no art, but it can refute it.
America's habit of distilling vicious, pitiless, cynical reality into a morality play can be an oasis.
Like heterosexuality, faith in immaterial realities is popularly considered essential to individual morality.
The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy.
In any conflict the boundaries of behavior are defined by the party that cares the least about morality
Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.
He has inhibited discussion by designating admonition as the method of dealing with a heretic- and the first method, too, because he is not a Christian. This is so that he would not seem to require correction again and again and before two or three witnesses as though he were a Christian. He ought to be corrected for the very reason that he is not to be disputed with. In addition, this is said because a controversy over the Scriptures can, clearly, produce no other effect than help to upset either the stomach or the brain.
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
I assure you, my children, that when a Christian carries out with love the most insignificant everyday action, that action overflows with the transcendence of God. That is why I have told you so often, and hammered away at it, that the Christian vocation consists in making heroic verse out of the prose of each day. Heaven and earth seem to merge, my children, on the horizon. But where they really meet is in your hearts, when you sanctify your everyday lives.
Contemporary Christian proclamation is faced with the question whether, when it demands faith from men and women, it expects them to acknowledge this mythical world picture from the past. If this is impossible, it has to face the question whether the New Testament proclamation has a truth that is independent of the mythical world picture, in which case it would be the task of theology to demythologize the Christian proclamation.
Whenever the Christian idea of meditation is taken seriously, there are those who assume it is synonymous with the concept of meditation centered in Eastern religions. In reality, the two ideas stand worlds apart. Eastern meditation is an attempt to empty the mind; Christian meditation is an attempt to fill the mind. The two ideas are quite different.
The Christian religion and Masonry have one and the same common origin: Both are derived from the worship of the Sun. The difference between their origin is, that the Christian religion is a parody on the worship of the Sun, in which they put a man whom they call Christ, in the place of the Sun, and pay him the same adoration which was originally paid to the Sun.
The vice I am talking of is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in Christian morals, is called Humility...According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere flea bites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.
Morality in government begins with officials using words as honestly as possible to describe the truth.
Universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones.
Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.
No man dares to condemn the Christian faith today, because the Christian faith has not been tried. Not until men get rid of the thought that it is a poor machine, an expedient for saving them from suffering and pain; not until they get the grand idea of it as the great power of God present in and through the lives of men; not until then does Christianity enter upon its true trial and become ready to show what it can do.
To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality
Whatever others think or do, lower not your standard of purity, morality and love of God.
God created the family to provide the maximum love and support and morality and example that one can imagine.
One should not quarrel with a dog without a reason sufficient to vindicate one through all the courts of morality.
I don't think 'Profit' is devoid of morality. He's just on a different plane than the rest of us.
Are you sick and tired of these moralizing moralizers imposing their morality on the rest of us? I know I am.
So, I think that's the centerpiece of morality: Don't lie. But to do that, you have to go a step further and find out what the truth is.
Overemphasis on the sex aspect of morality has led to a neglect of its other aspects and a narrowing of its range.
The first step in wisdom, as well as in morality, is to open the windows of the ego as wide as possible. — © Bertrand Russell
The first step in wisdom, as well as in morality, is to open the windows of the ego as wide as possible.
I'm a dad with six kids, and I'm trying to teach each of them a little bit of morality.
It is long accepted by the missionaries that morality is inversely proportional to the amount of clothing people wore
Christianity is most admirably adapted to the training of slaves, to the perpetuation of a slave society; in short, to the very conditions confronting us today. The rulers of the earth have realized long ago what potent poison inheres in the Christian religion. That is the reason they foster it; that is why they leave nothing undone to instill it into the blood of the people. They know only too well that the subtleness of the Christian teachings is a more powerful protection against rebellion and discontent than the club or the gun.
There is sort of a continuing problem of putting a moral template on the future that is based on the morality of today.
As the government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Musselmen [Muslims] ... it is declared ... that no pretext arising from religious opinion shall ever product an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.... The United States is not a Christian nation any more than it is a Jewish or a Mohammedan nation.
Christian society is like a bundle of sticks laid together, whereof one kindles another. Solitary men have fewest provocations to evil, but, again, fewest incitations to good. So much as doing good is better than not doing evil will I account Christian good-fellowship better than an hermitish and melancholy solitariness.
For every Christian, the proclamation and witnessing of the Gospel are never an isolated act. This is important. For every Christian the proclamation and witnessing of the Gospel are never an isolated or group act, and no evangelizers acts, as Paul VI reminded very well, "on the strength of a personal inspiration, but in union with the mission of the Church and in her name"
Without the errors which lie in the assumption of morality, man would have remained an animal.
But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.
Morality is how you go about getting what you want without screwing anybody to get it. — © Unknown
Morality is how you go about getting what you want without screwing anybody to get it.
I don't want to write a mass before being in a state to do it well, that is a Christian. I have therefore taken a singular course to reconcile my ideas with the exigencies of Academy rules. They ask me for something religious: very well, I shall do something religious, but of the pagan religion. . . . I have always read the ancient pagans with infinite pleasure, while in Christian writers I find only system, egoism, intolerance, and a complete lack of artistic taste.
If you are watching fanatically over the morality of your children you may yourself be not completely in order.
Obviously, marriage is not a synonym for morality. But stable marriages and families do encourage moral behavior.
I think that virtuosity is the first sign of morality in a musician. It means you're serious enough to practice.
Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.
You're so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
Christian audience, I think, have grown very tired of movies that try to pander to them. For instance if someone goes, "Ok, we're designing what we're going to do with this movie. It's a Christian movie and they'll eat it up." And you know what? Consumers are smarter than that. They go, "The movie isn't that great and he thought that I would just be a sucker and plop my $10 down for it?" Because you're looking down at the audience. You can't pander to an audience.
What kind of Christian are you? Did you ever lose a job, or lose a night's sleep, or lose a friend for God? If your Christianity never costs you a dollar, never cost you a friend, never cost any tears or broken heart, then can you really say that you love the Lord very much? To be a really good Christian is going to cost you.
Faith properly informs the religious lawyer or judge, and morality is not in tension with fidelity to the law.
Morality is: the mediocre are worth more than the exceptions ... I abhore Christianity with a deadly hatred.
The basic of all morality is duty, a concept with the same relation to group that self-interest has to individual.
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