Walter Scott Quotes

A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.

For he that is a good man, is three quarters of his way towards the being a good Christian, wheresoever he lives, or whatsoever he is called.

Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.

Tis certain that Morality is an indispensable Requisite of true Religion, and there can be none without it. But it would become the Pride and Ignorance of Pagans only, to magnify it, as the Whole of what is necessary.

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

My purpose in life is to do right and to glorify God.

Those of us who believe in God and those of us who have dedicated our lives to helping others in the name of God don't want to take a second seat to anyone who is suggesting that one word out of the platform means that the Democrats across America are godless.

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

Faith is part of who I am, yes. I was raised Christian Scientist. The most important thing I saw every single week on the wall at Sunday school was the Golden Rule.

To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.

There's been so much rhetoric in the past decade about how important religion is to being a good person, for people to say they don't believe in God.

Gospel goes with me wherever I go. Gospel is a constant with me.

An important function of theology is to keep religion tied to reason and reason to religion. Both roles are of essential importance for humanity.

I think he would care if you were a good person, if indeed there is a god.

We all know that men and women can be good without faith. And we also know that faith is an incredibly important source of goodness in our country.

Serve God with integrity, and if you achieve no success, at least no sin will lie upon your conscience.

About belief or lack of belief in an afterlife: Some of you may know that I am neither Christian nor Jewish nor Buddist, nor a conventionally religious person of any sort. I am a humanist, which mean, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without any expectation of rewards or punishments after I'm dead.

The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave.

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.

Grandma's on the front porch with a Bible in her hand, sometimes I hear her singing take me to the promised land.

A good man will not lie, although it be for his profit.

Good men but see death, the wicked taste it.

There is no true and abiding morality that is not founded in religion.

Christianity is not a religion for the masses, let alone for all. Cultivated by few and translated into deeds, it is one of the most splendid blossoms that can grow in the soul of a good man.

All true religion must stand on true morality.