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Morality: Quotations from Burning Words

Morality rests upon a sense of obligation; and obligation has no meaning except as implying a Divine command, without which it would cease to be.— J. A. FROUDE

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.— LONGFELLOW

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.— NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

To give a man a full knowledge of true morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.