Morality Quotes

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Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and drip of trees. — Henry Ward Beecher
In cases of doubtful morality, it is usual to say is there any harm in doing this? This question may sometimes be best answered by… — Charles Caleb Colton
The neglected heart will soon be a heart overrun with worldly thoughts; the neglected life will soon become a moral chaos. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the keys. — C.S. Lewis
Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken… — C.S. Lewis
Morality or duty never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others. — C.S. Lewis
There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. If God is like the Moral Law, then He is not… — C.S. Lewis
Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience. — C.S. Lewis
All men alike stand condemned, not by alien codes of ethics, but by their own, and all men therefore are conscious of guilt. — C.S. Lewis
One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity. — C.S. Lewis
The standard that measures two things is something different from either. You are, in fact, comparing them both with some Real Morality, admitting that there… — C.S. Lewis
In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a… — C.S. Lewis
Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that. — C.S. Lewis
Unless the will is free, man has no freedom; and if he has no freedom he is not a moral agent, that is, he is… — Charles Grandison Finney
No government is lawful or innocent that does not recognize the moral law as the only universal law, and God as the Supreme Lawgiver and… — Charles Grandison Finney
The moral law of God is the only law of individuals and of nations, and nothing can be rightful government but such as is established… — Charles Grandison Finney
The obligation of human beings to support and obey human governments, while they legislate upon the principles of the moral law, is an unalterable as… — Charles Grandison Finney
It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
False notions of liberty are strangely common. People talk of it as if it meant the liberty of doing whatever one likes - whereas the… — Frederick William Robertson
Must someone, some unseen thing, declare what is right for it to be right? I believe that my own morality - which answers only to… — Brandon Sanderson

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