Morality Quotes And Sayings

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“The neglected heart will soon be a heart overrun with worldly thoughts; the neglected life will soon become a moral chaos.”
– A.W. Tozer

“We have learned to live with unholiness and have come to look upon it as the natural and expected thing.”
– A.W. Tozer

“A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.”
– Albert Schweitzer

“A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.”
– Albert Schweitzer

“Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.”
– Albert Schweitzer

“Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.”
– Albert Schweitzer

“Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.”
– Albert Schweitzer

“I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.”
– Albert Schweitzer

“Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life.”
– Albert Schweitzer

“Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will – his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.”
– Albert Schweitzer

“Revenge… is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.”
– Albert Schweitzer

“Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.”
– Albert Schweitzer

“The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.”
– Albert Schweitzer

“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 the wrong position.”
– C.S. Lewis

“The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike. Unless we return to the crude and nursery-like belief in objective values, we perish.”
– 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 soft.”
– 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 is such a thing as a real Right, independent of what people think, and that some people’s ideas get nearer to that real Right than others.”
– 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 friction, in the running of that machine. That is why these rules at first seem to be constantly interfering with our natural inclinations.”
– C.S. Lewis

“Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.”
– C.S. Lewis

“Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?”
– Blaise Pascal

“Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.”
– Blaise Pascal

“Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.”
– Blaise Pascal

“Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.”
– Harriet Beecher Stowe

“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 incapable of moral action and also of moral character.”
– Charles Finney

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