Susan Elizabeth Phillips Quotes

It is vice to go to bed with someone you are not married to or have someone of your own sex or to get money for having sex with someone who does not appeal to you-incidentally, the basis of half the marriages of my generation.

If the Coastal Republic had believed in the existence of virtue, it could at least have aspired to hypocrisy.

You gave me your curse, holy Fathers. I give you a blessing: May you be as moral and religious as I am.

I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends.

Whatever efforts one may make, one must revert to the realization that religion is the real basis of morality; religion is the real and perceptible purpose within us, which alone, can turn aside our attention from things. ... The science of morality can no more teach human beings to be honest, in all the magnificence of this word, than geometry can teach one how to draw.

There'd be a lot less scandal if people didn't idealize sin and pose as sinners.

Really, all religious teachings can be boiled down to: “Just be cool. Don’t be an asshole.

Honor is the only really good disguise for an occasional act of dishonor.

I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances.

If people find that controversial then I would just refer them to the Sermon on the Mount.

If a man teach uprightly and walk crookedly, more will fall down in the night of his life than he built in the day of his doctrine.

One of the greatest failures of our generation is not living out the biblical precepts which we so clearly articulate.

I taught Sunday school when I was younger, and ended up an elder in the church, and it just seemed to me that a lot of people who went to church certainly weren't - the rest of the week - living what I would call an Christian life.

All systems of morality are fine. The gospel alone has exhibited a complete assemblage of the principles of morality, divested of all absurdity. It is not composed, like your creed, of a few common-place sentences put into bad verse. Do you wish to see that which is really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.

To make your people understand what righteousness is, this must be the basis of all your teaching.

Fear is the mother of morality.

Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.

A book must have moral purpose to be any good. Why, I don't know.

Those who fight corruption should be clean themselves.

All effective actions require the passport of morality.

Living on hypocrisy is not a healthy diet for patriots.

Sincerity is the norm of Heaven and the law of our nature. China and the West agree on this point, for without sincerity, no human prince could ever found a state, and no earthly teacher could ever establish a religion.

Life is about conduct and how we conduct ourselves. But two wrongs never make a right.

A sense of morality makes a person repetitive in thought and action. Such a person will obviously not get anywhere.