F. H. Bradley Quotes

The true Christian ideal is not to be happy but to be holy.

To be good and to do good-that is the whole of religion.

Without moral progress, stimulated by faith in God, immorality in all its forms will proliferate and strangle goodness and human decency. Mankind will not be able to fully express the potential nobility of the human soul unless faith in God is strengthened.

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

Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.

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

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

It is better to live poorly upon the fruits of God's goodness than live plentifully upon the products of our own sin.

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.

Everyone looks for the good, therefore everyone looks for God.

Religion finds the love of happiness and the principles of duty separated in us; and its mission, its masterpiece, is to reunite them.

My dear, be a good man be virtuous be religious be a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here. ...God bless you all.

The end of Religion is not to teach us how to die, but how to live.

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.

God is that inner presence which makes us admire the beautiful and consoles us for not sharing the happiness of the wicked.

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

All true religion must stand on true morality.

I think some people who say they're not Christians can behave in a more godly fashion than people who call themselves Christians.

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

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

It seems to me that if God calls us to anything it's to a life of integrity.

Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.

Any simple claim that you need religion to be good is flat wrong.

I'm not really a churchy person, although I do think Jesus was a good bloke.

I look at the Star of David as a symbol of righteousness.