Moral Law Quotes - Page 2

• LIFE is that existence that is given to man to live for a purpose, to live to his own satisfaction and pleasure, providing he forgets not the God who created him and who expects a spiritual obedience and observation of the moral laws that He has inspired.

  Marcus Garvey

  Spiritual, Inspirational Life, Men

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.6, Ravenio Books

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• Evolution may explain some features of the moral law, but it can't explain why it should have any real significance.

  Richard Dawkins

  Real, Should Have, Law

  Source: inters.org

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• The true fountains of evidence [are] the head and heart of every rational and honest man. It is there nature has written her moral laws, and where every man may read them for himself.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Heart, Men, Law

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin. Reports and opinions while Secretary of State”, p.613

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• The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.

  Paul Ricoeur

  Law, Finals, World

  Paul Ricoeur (2005). “The EPZ Conflict of Interpretations”, p.416, A&C Black

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• There is a universal moral law, as distinct from a moral code, which consists of certain statements of fact about the nature of man, and by behaving in conformity with which, man may enjoy his true freedom.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Men, Law, May

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2010). “Mind of the Maker”, p.7, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• You find out more about God from the Moral Law than from the univerise in general just as you find out more about a man by listening to his conversation than by looking at a house he has built.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Men, Law

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law, or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Men, Squares

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.92, Beacon Press

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• Whenever you try to break God's moral law, you end up breaking yourself and hurting others - all while proving His law in the process.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Hurt, Law, Trying

  Twitter post from Oct 21, 2015

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• The denial of an objective moral law, based on the compulsion to deny the existence of God, results ultimately in the denial of evil iteself.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Law, Evil, Denial

  Ravi Zacharias (2010). “Beyond Opinion: Living the Faith We Defend”, p.193, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The moral laws of the Universe are deeply embedded in the constitution of things. We do not break them - we break ourselves upon them.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Law, Moral, Constitution

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• Moses simplifies the whole duty of Israel (and of humanity) by crystalizing the moral law into a single command to love God supremely.

  Max Anders

  Israel, Law, Humanity

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• Music is moral law. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful.

  Plato

  Beautiful, Law, Essence

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• The moral law is simply the way we think our own freedom as self-determination.

  Allen W. Wood

  Determination, Thinking, Self

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• We look upon this shaken earth, and we declare our firm and fixed purpose - the building of a peace with justice in a world where moral law prevails.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Peace, Law, Justice

  Second Inaugural Address, en.wikisource.org. January 21, 1957.

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• The obligation of human beings to support and obey human governments, while they legislate upon the principles of the moral law, is an unalterable as the moral law itself.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Government, Law, Support

  Charles Grandison Finney (1840). “Skeletons of a Course of Theological Lectures”, p.238

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• There is no author or legislator of the moral law. It is simply valid in itself in the nature or essence of things. We become autonomous only when we obey it, because then our will aligns itself with the objectively valid law, and our choice follows the same law as that we give ourselves. We can think of rational faculty (or the idea - the pure rational concept, not exhibitable in experience) as the legislator or author of the law because reason recognizes an objective standard, and to that extent is already aligned with objective moral truth.

  Allen W. Wood

  Thinking, Law, Essence

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Not everybody wants to call sin 'sin'! Some call it mischief. Some call it rebellion. And hardly anybody can agree where we should draw the line. ... Our courts are ... trying to define pornography, yet moral law is very specific to any reader of God's Word.

  Paul Harvey

  Law, Trying, Lines

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• The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scripture ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws.

  Noah Webster

  Law, Scripture, Principles

  Noah Webster (1832). “History of the United States: To which is Prefixed a Brief Historical Account of Our [English] Ancestors, from the Dispersion at Babel, to Their Migration to America, and of the Conquest of South America, by the Spaniards”, p.339

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• The moral law of God is the only law of individuals and of nations, and nothing can be rightful government but such as is established and administered with a view to its support.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Government, Views, Law

  Charles Grandison Finney, George REDFORD (D.D.) (1851). “Lectures on systematic theology, embracing moral government, the atonement, etc. Revised, enlarged, and partly re-written by the Author ... Edited ... by G. Redford”, p.361

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• No government is lawful or innocent that does not recognize the moral law as the only universal law, and God as the Supreme Lawgiver and Judge, to whom nations in their national capacity, as well as individuals, are amenable.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Government, Law, Judging

  Charles Grandison Finney (1846). “Lectures on Systematic Theology: Embracing Lectures on Moral Government, Together with Atonement, Moral and Physical Depravity, Regeneration, Philosophical Theories, and Evidences of Regeneration”, p.435

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• Stargazing is one of the most profoundly human things one can do. But perhaps we must more frequently tear ourselves away from the mystery and beauty of the starry heavens above, and rather inspect, admire and foster the moral law within.

  Jack Gleeson

  Beauty, Stars, Law

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• All the moral laws are readily translated into natural philosophy, for often we have only to restore the primitive meaning of thewords by which they are expressed, or to attend to their literal instead of their metaphorical sense. They are already supernatural philosophy.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Law

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.271, Delphi Classics

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• The artist is to be exempt from the moral laws that are binding on ordinary people. Just pronounce the magic word "Art," and everything is O.K. Rotting corpses with snails crawling over them are O.K.; kicking little girls in the head is O.K.; even a film like L'Age d'Or is O.K.

  George Orwell

  Girl, Art, Law

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.216, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Yahweh [God] must become man precisely because he has done man a wrong. He, the guardian of justice, knows that every wrong must be expiated, and Wisdom knows that moral law is above even him. Because his creature has surpassed him he must regenerate himself

  Carl Jung

  Men, Law, Justice

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, Gerhard Adler, Michael Scott Montague Fordham (1973). “The Collected Works of C.G. Jung: Psychology and religion, West and East”

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• The consummate leader cultivates the moral law, and strictly adheres to method and discipline; thus it is in his power to control success.

  Sun Tzu

  Leadership, Art Of War, Law

  Sun Tzu (2016). “The Art of War”, p.20, Xist Publishing

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