Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

I do not want to suggest that you have to be religious to be moral.

Our moral philosophy determines our values - what we care about and what we don't care about - and our values determine our decisions, actions, and beliefs. Therefore, moral philosophy applies to everything in our lives.

Morality may exist in an atheist without any religion, and in a theist with a religion quite unspiritual.

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.

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

Without ethics, man has no future. This is to say, mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.

I just believe if you don't believe in God, then where is your moral barometer? That's just me talking. You can believe what you want to believe.

Many a man renounces morals, but with great difficulty the conception, 'morality.' Morality is the 'idea' of morals, their intellectual power, their power over the conscience; on the other hand, morals are too material to rule the mind, and do not fetter an 'intellectual' man, a so-called independent, a 'freethinker.'

Basic religion is the reason we have morals.

His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right.

As for morality, well that's all tied up with the question of consciousness.

Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it.

I'd forgotten it's an important thing to give thought to your morality and how you intend to live your life.

No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.

Religion is the anchor of morality for most people.

Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.

What are the values that give meaning? What is the line that you will never cross, because on this side you're good, and on this side you're evil.

One needs to know what is right and what is wrong.

Churches come and go, but there has ever been but one religion. The only religion is conscience in action.

I guess to me religion is a kind of moral code.

Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality.

Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality. Morality is not bribery or threats. Religion is bribery and threats. Humans have morality. We don't need religion.

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

I'm very passionate about philosophy and religion.