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Morality Quotes
"Don't allow yourself to be fooled by how 'nice' a person appears to be, measure a person's virtuousness by the way in which they treat others with their words and actions ."
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"When you betray someone, First you betray to yourself who speak somewhere inside you that you are good human."
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"As long as [man] does not convert it into action, it does not matter how much he thinks about this new repentance... Wallow in it... Write a book about it; that is often an excellent way of sterilising the seeds which [Heavenly Father] plants in a human soul... Do anything but act. No amount of piety in his imagination and affections will harm [the cause of evil] if [it is kept] out of his will... The more often he feels without acting, the less he will ever be able to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel."
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"We opt to be seen as 'right' in the eyes of everyone else, rather than doing what's 'right' in light of the situation."
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"It is quite ironic that those calling the loudest for 'morality' are typically the most immoral of all."
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"Sincerity' and 'morality', if you completely (from all angles) learn these two words then everything is completed!"
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"I love Hitler for his leadership, but I abhor his actions."
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"If I had one sermon to preach, it would be a sermon against Pride. The more I see of existence...the more I am convinced of the reality of the old religious thesis, that all evil began with some attempt at superiority; some moment when, as we might say, the very skies were cracked across like a mirror, because there was a sneer in Heaven."
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"As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly."
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"The monks used to say that he was more drawn to those who were more sinful, and the greater the sinner the more he loved him."
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"Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral."
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"What's simple is that everything good comes from God, and everything bad comes from man. Where it gets complicated is that everything seemingly good but ultimately bad comes from man, and everything seemingly bad but ultimately good comes from God."
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"There is a big difference between being self-ist and being selfish-putting yourself first doesn't mean you have to put everyone else last."
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"What have I always believed?That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what any priests said, but according to what seemed decent and honest inside, then it would, at the end, more or less, turn out all right."
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"Having 'holy' thoughts, and doing bad deeds, such a lot are assholes indeed."
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"Il n'est si homme de bien, qu'il mette à l'examen des lois toutes ses actions et pensées, qui ne soit pendable dix fois en sa vie. (There is no man so virtuous that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the law, he would not deserve to be hanged ten times in his life.)"
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"There are some corrupt Christians who do their business with female donkeys."
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"All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are ... punished by fear."
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"Morality is for everybody, and this means that the views of more than one person are needed to create it. That was what made the modern morality, with its emphasis on individuals and the working out of an individual position, so weak. If you gave people the chance to work out their morality, then they would work out the version which was easiest for them and which allowed them to do what suited them for as much of the time as possible. That, in Mma Ramotswe's view, was simple selfishness, whatever grand name one gave to it."
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"Moral obligations verses Legal obligations. Legally, you must abide by the laws of the land or face the consequences of being fined, imprisoned or both. Moral obligations tend to lean more towards a spiritual nature of a person. Some people perform immoral acts because legally there are no consequences. Morals birth in the heart of the individual. Moral characteristics are developed at an early age and continue into adulthood. It's a disgrace to neglect having good moral character."
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"As water cannot rise higher than its source, so the moral quality in an act can never be higher than the motive that inspires it. For this reason no act that arises from an evil motive can be good, even though some good may appear to come out of it. Every deed done out of anger or spite, for instance, will be found at last to have been done for the enemy and against the kingdom of God."
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"Never try to lock the virtue's door with the key of viceIt may lock forever, never to be opened again."
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"When we go through life believing that we need mercy, we're more likely to extend it. As humans our tendency is to want justice for others, but mercy for ourselves. It doesn't work that way. We reap what we sow. (Galatians 6:7) And the timing isn't ours-it's God's. He often extends us mercy, not when we are well behaved, but when we are miserable, helpless, wicked, ungodly, and powerless. Even when we bring on our problems by our own choices, His mercy comes when we cry for it. To refuse to cry for it because we feel unworthy, is a win for Satan."
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"Christmas was a response of the choice of mankind to take its existence into its own hands and chart its own course, liberally scripting its own ethics, crafting its own moral system, and choosing to believe that it was the creator and therefore master of its fate. Christmas is a response to mankind reeling off the pages of history and splattering the blood of lives and generations wasted along its free-wheeling course."
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"It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right."
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"By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are."
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"In this world, there is nothing that is right. Anything that people raise objection to, is wrong. Do people raise objection in every matter?"
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"Like a sneeze, sin feels good at first, but it leaves a huge mess."
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"So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after."
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"After September 11th, I never much liked the trend of everyone and his brother wearing the hats and jackets of the NYPD and FDNY. Only the people who do the job should get to wear the hat. Would you wear someone else's Medal of Honor? Yes, it's a tribute, and sincere tribute is always appropriate for these brave people. But wearing their symbols is also rubbing off a piece of heroism that isn't yours."
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"There never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much, and overreach themselves. It is as certain as death."
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"In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities: either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric. He must believe his ends to be served all things and people can justifiably be shifted about, or that he is the center not only of his own world but of the worlds which others inhabit."
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