MORALS

(See also Chasteness; Ethics; Immorality [Sexual]; Integrity; Values; Virtue)

(Note centered heading below: Quotations)

Bible standards: mrt article 30; mwb21.01 2; mwb17.06 7; w06 11/15 5-7; om 127-130; yp 180-217; w87 10/15 4-7; tp 108-109

benefits: w19.05 23; g16.2 4-5; w11 11/1 16; w01 3/15 17; w00 11/1 8-9; w89 11/1 10-15; w88 4/15 4-7

best: mwb24.09 7

conforming to, after learning truth: w18.11 6-7, 11

Eden: it-2 15-16

enforced in Jehovah’s organization: w88 5/1 17-18

happiness from: g90 6/8 8-9

identify true worship: w09 8/1 5-6

keeping: w15 6/15 13-17; w06 8/1 24-25; w99 9/1 12-13; kl 50-51

learning and teaching: w02 6/15 17-22

practicality: w86 5/1 5

proper attitude toward: w87 6/15 20

shared residences: w10 2/15 23

superiority: w00 1/1 3-5; w00 11/1 4-7; g93 8/8 8-10

termed old-fashioned by Anglican priest: w90 5/15 30

universal appeal: g93 8/8 10

wisdom of: w19.05 22-23; w90 4/1 14-15; gm 168-170

children:

conditions in schools: g95 12/22 3-4

parental responsibility: mwb21.01 3; ed 24; g 3/07 5-7; lr 6; g97 6/8 8-10; g97 11/8 29; g96 7/8 29; g89 4/22 5-6

teaching moral values: w24.12 17-18; g18.2 10; g 10/12 24-25; g 11/12 9; w11 2/1 18-20; g 10/11 6; g 3/07 9; w05 4/1 14-16; w97 10/15 32; pe 248-249

Witness children: g93 11/22 5-6

cleanness: od 132; lvs 107, 249; lv 89; g 11/14 15; w02 2/1 5-6; w02 6/1 21-23; w00 11/1 7-17; w89 6/1 12-13; w89 11/1 10-15

cultivating higher: jd 101-105; g87 11/22 19-20

direction of change: g93 8/8 5-7

distinguishing right from wrong: wp24.1 3-16; w05 1/1 9-10; w04 12/1 3-7; g04 10/22 28; w01 8/1 7-12

effect of associations: gm 164; yp 65-67, 278-280; w88 8/15 6, 17; w87 11/1 18

evidence of Creator: ct 68-69

examples:

youths maintain morality: lvs 127; lv 107; w06 1/1 25; w00 1/1 16; g96 8/22 31

experiences:

Witness program on moral values, held at factory: w98 6/1 8; yb97 62

Witness program on moral values, held at school: w98 6/1 8

failure of religions to promote: w13 7/1 6

importance to Christians: sh 236; w87 11/1 18-19

insensibility to: it-1 846

integrity: scl 59-60; it-1 1209-1212; w10 11/15 29; w08 12/15 3-11; w04 12/1 13-18; w02 5/15 24-28

Jehovah’s standards: it-2 15-16; lvs 239-240; rr 156-157; g 7/07 4-7, 21; jd 83-95; w01 1/15 4-6

Jehovah himself adheres: it-2 412

refinement of Jehovah’s people: kr 108, 110-117

‘law written in heart’ (Ro 2:15): it-1 501; it-2 474-475, 965-966

lessons from creation limited: w88 3/1 4

link between poor ethics and stress: g91 8/22 28-29

love for God promotes: w87 10/15 4-7

meaning of term: g00 4/8 3; g90 6/8 6

moral values: g 2/14 9; g 11/13 6-9; w07 6/15 3-7; g 7/07 3-5; g89 3/22 2-10

Bible’s bring happiness: g90 6/8 8-9

education in: g19.1 6-7; w96 2/1 12-13

lack of guidance: g 4/07 7; g93 8/8 6-7

throughout history: w19.05 21-22; g90 6/8 6-7

Witness view: w23.07 15; ed 24; w14 9/15 10; w13 7/1 6

need for a guide: wp24.1 4-5; w17.11 22; w07 10/1 4; g 7/07 3-5, 20-21; w04 12/1 4-6; g89 3/22 6-7; tp 27

New Morality:

effect on manners: g94 7/22 7-9

no return to, despite AIDS: g90 6/8 3-5; w89 10/1 31

“past all moral sense” (Eph 4:19): w93 3/1 12-13

poor people: w90 11/15 3-7

relativism: w01 11/1 3; g94 7/22 8-9

science: g02 6/8 11

source: g89 3/22 7; g89 11/22 10

unique to mankind: w20.05 23; w04 12/1 3; tp 44

whether money is compatible: w06 2/1 3-7

whether religion is a force for: w04 2/15 3-4; w87 10/15 3-7; tp 26-28, 30-31

Quotations

impossible to have a moral community or nation without faith in God: g89 3/22 7

individual not anchored in God can offer no resistance to moral blandishments of world: g89 3/22 6-7

man has driven God out of his life and therefore lacks a moral center: g89 3/22 7

morals a biological necessity: g90 6/8 5

moral sense in man persists despite all the temptations which constantly work against it: g89 3/22 6

only adequate structure is that based on meaning of life. Ultimate structure is nature of God: w99 6/15 18-19