Christian Ethics Quotes

• The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Loyalty, Peace, Rhyming

  Albert Schweitzer (1966). “The Teaching of Reverence for Life”

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  To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.

  C. S. Lewis

  Forgiveness, God, Christian

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• Your job isn't to judge. - Your job isn't to figure out if someone deserves something or decide who is right or wrong. - Your job is to lift the fallen, restore the broken, and heal the hurting.

  Joel Osteen

  Christian, Religious, Hurt

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• Christian ethics is not primarily an individualistic, one-on-one-with-God brand of personal holiness; rather it has to do with living the life of the Spirit in Christian community and in the world.

  Gordon Fee

  Christian, Live Life, Community

  Gordon D. Fee (1994). “Paul, the Spirit, and the People of God”, p.81, Baker Academic

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• Christian liberty is freedom from sin, not freedom to sin.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Sins Not, Liberty

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• I am among those who believe that our Western civilization is on its way to perishing. It has many commendable qualities, most of which it has borrowed from the Christian ethic, but it lacks the element of moral wisdom that would give it permanence. Future historians will record that we of the twentieth century had intelligence enough to create a great civilization but not the moral wisdom to preserve it.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Believe, Civilization

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• The flame of Christian ethics is still our highest guide.

  Winston Churchill

  Christian, Flames, Grace

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• Evangelical faith without Christian ethics is a travesty on the gospel.

  V. Raymond Edman

  Christian, Ethics, Morality

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• The world needs Christians who don't tolerate the complacency of their own lives.

  Francis Chan

  Christian, Religious, World

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.123, David C Cook

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• At the heart of Christian ethic is humility; at the heart of its parodies, pride. Different roads with different destinations, and the destinations color the character of those who travel by them.

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, Character, Humility

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• Although I respect the Judeo-Christian ethic, as well as the Eastern philosophies, and of course the teachings of Muhammad, I find that organized religion has corrupted those beliefs to justify countless atrocities throughout the ages. Were I to go to church, I'd be a hypocrite.

  Danny Masterson

  Christian, Philosophy, Teaching

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• In our struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, I came to see at a very early stage that a synthesis of Gandhi's method of nonviolence and the Christian ethic of love is the best weapon available to Negroes for this struggle for freedom and human dignity. It may well be that the Gandhian approach will bring about a solution to the race problem in America. His spirit is a continual reminder to oppressed people that it is possible to resist evil and yet not resort to violence.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Christian, Struggle, Love Is

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• We now live in a 'post-Christian' America . The Judeo-Christian ethic no longer guides our social institutions. Christian ideals and values no longer dominate social thought and action. The Bible has ceased to be a common base of moral authority for judging whether something is right or wrong, good or bad, acceptable or unacceptable.

  Harvey Cox

  Christian, Religious, America

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• We must have Christian ethics for our children, good and strong, but we must make them attractive, too, and it can be done.

  Enid Blyton

  Christian, Strong, Children

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• One would like to believe that people who think of themselves as devout Christians would also behave in a manner that is in according with Christian ethics. But pastorally and existentially, I know that this is not the case, and never has been.

  Richard John Neuhaus

  Christian, Atheist, Believe

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• The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing.

  David Rockefeller

  Christian, Aquariums, Essentials

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If Christ would have left Christian ethics codified on the table, then he wouldn't produce moral beings choosing between good and evil, but conformists fulfilling orders. I think the same can be said about the Bible.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Christian, Thinking, Order

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

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• The fundamental defect of Christian ethics consists in the fact that it labels certain classes of acts 'sins' and others 'virtue' on grounds that have nothing to do with their social consequences.

  Bertrand Russell

  Christian, Class, Labels

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Education and the Social Order”, p.73, Routledge

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• I will be guided by the Christian ethic and an awareness that human action is by nature transient.

  Horst Kohler

  Christian, Ethics, Action

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• Thus Christian humanism is as indispensable to the Christian way of life as Christian ethics and a Christian sociology.

  Christopher Dawson

  Christian, Literature, Way

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• Islam, the third in historical sequence of the ethical monotheistic religions of the Near East, was very successful in establishing its monotheism, but had only very moderate success in spreading its version of Jewish and Christian ethics to the Arabs.

  Carroll Quigley

  Christian, Successful, Historical

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• I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness.

  Carrie Fisher

  Christmas, Christian, Kindness

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• Christ could not create a codified 'Christian ethics'; such a thing would be a contradiction in terms.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Christian, Would Be, Ethics

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

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• We had a Judeo-Christian ethic hanging around a couple thousand years that didn't help erase racism at all. So the notion of the little half-hour comedy changing things is something I think is silly.

  Norman Lear

  Christian, Couple, Silly

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• The Christian view that all intercourse outside marriage is immoral was, as we see in the above passages from St. Paul, based upon the view that all sexual intercourse, even within marriage, is regrettable. A view of this sort, which goes against biological facts, can only be regarded by sane people as a morbid aberration. The fact that it is embedded in Christian ethics has made Christianity throughout its whole history a force tending towards mental disorders and unwholesome views of life.

  Bertrand Russell

  Christian, Fear, Views

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