Quotes on Morality And Religion

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle.

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

If people are good because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.

Consciousness permits us to develop the instruments of culture - morality and justice, religion, art, economics and politics, science and technology. Those instruments allow us some measure of freedom in the confrontation with nature.

I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth — that God governs in the affairs of men.

The great pillars of all government and of social life [are] virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone, that renders us invincible.

. . . Virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone that renders us invincible. These are the tactics we should study. If we lose these, we are conquered, fallen indeed . . . so long as our manners and principles remain sound, there is no danger.

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made for a moral and religious people... it is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Let us with Caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.

Religion and good morals are the only solid foundation of public liberty and happiness.

The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God.

The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend to all the happiness of man.

A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

The propitious smiles of Heaven, can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained...

Nothing has a greater tendency to lessen the reverence which mankind ought to have for the Supreme Being, than a careless repetition of his name upon every trifling occasion . . . . To prevent this profanation, such passages are selected from scripture, as contain some important precepts of morality and religion, in which that sacred name is seldom mentioned. Let sacred things be appropriated to sacred purposes.

Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.