James E. Faust Quotes

I don't want to have to compromise my morals in order to make a living.

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

The moral element … ministers, professors, and respectable persons … do not believe politics should be pursued as a trade.

I have a secret passion for mercy. . . but justice is what keeps happening to people.

Goodness means the highest degree of popularity.

It is difficult to separate oneself from one's design moralities.

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

Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.

Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.

Integrity is incredibly important to me. As long as you're authentic, you can do no wrong.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

The ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility are not opposites. They are complementary to one another.

All a man can betray is his conscience.

In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place.

That which is morally wrong will never be politically right.

Be sensible, that is, cease to be honest.

I don’t believe, and I never did, that a man has to become an informer to practice his profession.

While intellectually you are giants, morally you are pygmies.

Out there you might say there is a moral majority and if you could put them together …

I don't think morality can be decided on the private level. I think you need public guidance and public support for a moral consensus. The average person has to know instinctively, without thinking too much about it, how he should raise his children.

Consciences keep silence more often than they should, that's why laws were created.

It's difficult in the abstract to appreciate that those with morally objectionable viewpoints can still be good people.

I always turn to Wendy Williams when there's any type of ethical or moral crisis in our country.

I will never cheat in any walk of life.

Seeking justice is always our goal, but we see many too willing to circumvent that.