morality on Moral Courage

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

It takes a great deal of freedom and love to be therapeutic with a group. Many years ago when Emil Brunner, the great Swiss theologian, was lecturing in this country, it was reported that when he prea...

“Moral”…is an orientation toward understandings about what is right and wrong, just and unjust, that are not established by our own actual desires or preferences but instead are believed to exist apar...

There is a Moral sense, and there is an Immoral Sense. History shows us that the Moral Sense enables us to perceive morality and how to avoid it, and that the Immoral Sense enables us to perceive immo...

Moralistic behavior change done for one's self simply manipulates and leverages radical selfishness without challenging it.

If we’re unable or unwilling to discern a norm to judge what is good and evil, the whole moral order will tumble into confusion. If we don’t get the moral facts straight, a variety of “crises” will co...

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.

When you pass beyond good and evil, you pass into the realm where might is right, and where anything that reminds you of the old moral values—for instance, a large Jewish community—stands in your way ...

It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.

The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason.

You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.

I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

Morality or duty . . . never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others.

The current popular notion that judging others is in itself a sin leads to such inappropriate maxims as 'I'm okay and you're okay.' It encourages a conspiracy of moral indifference whi...

The devil may also make use of morality.

There is no good or evil, there is only power, and those too weak to seek it.

If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong.

Human will-power alone is not enough. Will-power is excellent and we should always be using it; but it is not enough. A desire to live a good life is not enough. Obviously we should all have that desi...

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

It is always easier for us to want to purify other people, and attempt a moral reformation among our neighbors. (Yet) how much have I helped to make her what she is?

The moment you say that one set of moral ideas can be better than another, you are, in fact, measuring them both by a standard, saying that one of them conforms to that standard more nearly than the o...

The only reason for doing the right thing is that it is the right thing to do; all other reasons are reasons for doing something else.

State a moral case to a ploughman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules.

The disappearance of moral knowledge, in the manner reviewed, is not an expression of truth rationally secured, but is the outcome of an historical drift, with no rational justification at all or only...

In his thoughtful book, Our Good Crisis: Overcoming Moral Chaos with the Beatitudes , Jonathan K. Dodson provides a wonderful analogy of what happens when we cultivate the virtues in our lives: W...

One looks for an image of man, attempting in a world increasingly dehumanized to realize himself as a man—to act like a responsible moral being, not to drift like a mere thing.

Critics of Christianity correctly point out that the church has proved an unreliable carrier of moral values. The church has indeed made mistakes, launching Crusades, censuring scientists, burning wit...

Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.