Moral Growth Quotations

A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

Punishments erode relationships and moral growth.

One of the ways in which parenting is a learning experience and an opportunity for moral growth is that we learn as parents that we don't choose the kind of child that we have.

Maybe the growth of "God" signifies the existence of God. That is: if history naturally pushes people toward moral improvement, toward moral growth, and their God, as they conceive their God, grows accordingly, becoming morally richer, then maybe this growth is evidence of some higher purpose, and maybe - conceivably - the source of that purpose is worthy of the name divinity.

The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.