It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue. Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order. For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers. There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems to us demonstrably superior to anything we ourselves possess. It augurs not merely an unfairness on the part of creation, but a lack of artistic judgment.
Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
Pamela Hansford Johnson Morality is a venereal disease. The aim of morality is to give people a standard of action and a motive to work by which, they will not intensify each person's selfishness, but raise them up above it. The new so called morality has too often the old immorality condoned. The biggest threat to our well-being is the absence of moral clarity and purpose. Vittorio De Sica Mercy to living beings, self restraint, truth, honesty, chastity and contentment, right faith and knowledge, and austerity are but the entourage of morality.