James Anthony Froude Quotes About Morality
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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.
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The better one is morally the less aware they are of their virtue.
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To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.
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Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.
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History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
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The moral system of the universe is like a document written in alternate ciphers, which change from line to line.
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