Top 1200 Christian Morality Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Ideals and morality are often spoken of as virtual antimatter to the behaviors allegedly needed to maximize profits.

If you can't show the difference between religion and the Gospel, people will confuse morality with a changed heart

If state, party and social policy will not be based on morality, then mankind has no future to speak of.

The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that.

In the continuing debate over the morality of enhanced interrogation, an essential consideration is often overlooked: intent.

When exhaling this air, we announced Jesus Christ risen by the same Spirit. No one can live without breathing. It is the same for the Christian: without praise and mission there is not Christian life. And with praise, worship. We rarely speak about worship. What do we do when we pray? We ask things of God, we give thanks. But worshipping and adoring God is part of breathing - praise and worship.

Post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing.

I want to place morality, honesty and ethics at the center of my government's preoccupations, of its councilors or all the principality's decisions.

One can understand nothing of Christ without the mystery of the Trinity, nothing of the Church without faith in the divinity and humanity of Christ, nothing of the sacraments without the bridal mystery between Christian life without Christian faith. Thus, the present sermons revolve around the same center--the inexhaustible mystery of the one indivisible faith.

There's no black and no white, just shades of grey...But the small betrayals lead to bigger ones, morality is eroded.

Those who conduct themselves with morality, integrity and consistency need not fear the forces of inhumanity and cruelty.

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike.

It is unreasonable [for a father] to expect moral success with [his] children without submitting to the laws of morality.

Such then in number and importance are the precious ties belonging to the Christian name which keep a believer in the Catholic Church, as it is right they should ... With you, where there is none of these things to attract or keep me... No one shall move me from the faith which binds my mind with ties so many and so strong to the Christian religion... For my part, I should not believe the gospel except as moved by the authority of the Catholic Church.

Classic nineteenth century European imperialists believed they were literally on a mission. I don't believe that the imperialists these days have that same sense of public service. They are simply pirates. Yes, there are fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, who appear to be in charge of the White House at the moment, but they are very different from the Christian gentlemen who ran the British Empire and believed they were doing good works around the world. These days it's about naked power.

There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name.

Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality.

The nature of morality must be considered, and preferably before one is exposed to situations where a moral decision is required.

For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.

As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality.

You're trying to be tricky. What's morality?" "It's the difference between what's right and what you can rationalize." "Must be a human thing." "Exactly.

Sex is the point of contact between man and nature, where morality and good intentions fall to primitive urges.

Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.

When I mention religion I mean the Christian religion; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.

It is doubtful that the dissection of living animals and plants could be done by those who believe them to be holy. A pantheist would not view trees as so many board feet in the manner a Christian would. A pantheist would be less likely to measure the number of acre feet coming over a waterfall than his Christian descendent, centuries later who had become a scientist. That which is sacred would be handled with a certain reverence.

If you have laws and legislation that ban certain things based on the principles of the Scriptures and based on your Christian background, then let it stand there. Who is having big debates with the Islamic people about it (gay rights)? Who is telling them to bend their laws? If your laws are based on your Christian points of view, then you must stand your ground?

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

Ethics and I had crossed paths recently, and I’m not sure that I fell on the right side of the morality line.

The foundation of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principle of private morality.

Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience.

Morality, after all, has nothing to do with selflessness. On the contrary, self-interest is precisely the basis of the categorical imperative.

Every nation makes decisions based on self-interest and defends them on the basis of morality.

It induced us to conduct government according to lies. It distorted justice. It undermined American morality.

The Japanese chose the principle of eternal peace as the basis of morality for our rebirth after the War.

Any politician who tells you morality has nothing to do with the law and government is about to do something extremely immoral.

Morality is a burglar's tool whose merit lies in never being left behind at the scene of the crime.

Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them.

The writer's first affinity is not to a loyalty, a tradition, a morality, a religion, but to life itself, and to its representation in language.

I was born into a Christian household, in a parsonage in fact, so I grew up in sort of a missionary atmosphere but it was an environment which involved both the traditional religions as well as the Muslim religion, so we were exposed to all the various facets of faith, micro cultures which existed within those beliefs, and even though I've lost whatever Christian faith was drummed into me as a child, I still maintain very good relationship with all the various religions.

For the first time in human history, there seems to be a radical increase in the proportion reaching principled morality.

My beloved young friends, determine to serve one another. Opportunities for Christian acts of service do not always come at convenient times. Listen to the spirit when your flesh is weak. For truly the Master said, "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me" (Matt. 25:40). The blessings are tenfold when we do those good, kindly acts of Christian service when it is inopportune or not convenient.

Piety, religion, and morality are intimately connected with the well being of that state, and indispensable to the administration of civil justice.

The morality code that remains after the religion that produced it is rejected is like the perfume that lingers in an empty bottle.

The Christian claim is: Nothing explains the facts better than an all-powerful, all-knowing, omnipresent god creating the universe and sending Jesus to spread his message. This is about as remarkable a claim as could be stated, and yet it is tossed out lightly. Christians seem to imagine that "God did it" is as plausible as the natural explanation that stories grow with the retelling. The Christian has the burden of proof, and it's an enormous burden given this enormous claim.

I taught what was clear in Acts 11:26: SAVED = CHRISTIAN = DISCIPLE, simply meaning that you cannot be saved and you cannot be a true Christian without being a disciple also. I taught that, to be baptized, you must first make the decision to be a disciple, and then be baptized. I taught that their baptism was invalid because a retroactive understanding of repentance and baptism was not consistent with Scripture.

America's Christian conservative movement is confronted with this divide: small-government advocates who want to practice their faith independent of heavy-handed government versus big-government sympathizers who want to impose their version of 'righteousness' on others through the hammer of law.... Our movement must avoid the temptations of power and those who would twist the good intentions of Christian voters to support policies that undermine freedom and grow government.

Rights are not a matter of numbers - and there can be no such thing, in law or in morality, as actions forbidden to an individual, but permitted to a mob.

I've got confidence that most people in America still have a decent sense of manners, propriety, morality.

The carnal person fears man, not God. The strong Christian fears God, not man. The weak Christian fears man too much, and God too little.

There is a certain kind of morality which is even more alien to good and evil than amorality is.

The Christian is free from all other human beings. He does not have to live over against others, controlled by their actions and responses. Rather, he lives according to Christ's commands. This is Christian freedom. It is a freedom unknown by others. It is not just when others do the things that we like that we act properly toward them; we are free to do good even when they don't because our actions are not dependent on their responses. It is the Lord Christ when we serve!

But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.

Reason is incompetent to answer any fundamental question about God, or morality, or the meaning of life.

In any society that is governed by the rule of law, some form of morality is always imposed. It's inescapable.

One of the many burdens of the person professing Christianity has always been the odium likely to be heaped upon him by fellow Christians quick to smell out, denounce and punish fraud, hypocrisy and general unworthiness among those who assert the faith. In ruder days, disputes about what constituted a fully qualified Christian often led to sordid quarrels in which the disputants tortured, burned and hanged each other in the conviction that torture, burning and hanging were Christian things to do.

The Gospel is temporary, but the law is eternal and is restored precisely through the Gospel. Freedom from the law consists, then, not in the fact that the Christian has nothing more to do with the law, but lies in the fact that the law demands nothing more from the Christian as a condition of salvation. The law can no longer judge and condemn him. Instead he delights in the law of God according to the inner man and yearns for it day and night.

Morality is similar to religion - it is a somniferous drug which blinds people from seeing the squalor of their lives.

You'll be riding along in an automobile. You'll be the driver perhaps. You're a Christian. There'll be several people in the automobile with you, maybe someone who is not a Christian. When the trumpet sounds you and the other born-again believers in that automobile will be instantly caught away - you will disappear, leaving behind only your clothes and physical things that cannot inherit eternal life. That unsaved person or persons in the automobile will suddenly be startled to find the car suddenly somewhere crashes.

Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society.

In Acts 14:1, we are told, "At Iconium Paul and Barnabas went as usual into the Jewish synagogue. There they spoke so effectively that a great number of Jews and Gentiles believed." This is what should be sought in Christian schools, not just teaching, but effective teaching. Christian content alone is insufficient. It must be presented in a certain way, and that way cannot be reduced to technique. Nevertheless, God has graciously made it possible to bring people the truth by how the truth is presented.