The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct. — Paul Ricoeur Copy Share Image
“Moral law is an invention of mankind for the disenfranchisement of the powerful in favor of the weak.” — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Biblical justice is the equitable application of God's moral law in society. — Tony Evans Copy Share Image
“Just as rust produced by iron corrodes iron, so is the violator of moral law destroyed by his own wrong action.” — Thích Nhất Hạnh Copy Share Image
Music is moral law. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful. — Plato Copy Share Image
Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scripture ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws. — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
My thesis is that the moral law is articulated with relation to the real as such, to the real insofar as it… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
The true fountains of evidence [are] the head and heart of every rational and honest man. It is there nature has written… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“To deny the existence of a God and more specifically the Creator God of Christianity is not based upon a philosophical issue,… — R. Alan Woods Copy Share Image
We look upon this shaken earth, and we declare our firm and fixed purpose-the building of a peace with justice in a… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Neither moral relations nor the moral law can swing in vacuo. Their only habitat can be a mind which feels them; and… — William James Copy Share Image
“Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Thus moral theology leads us four steps deeper than law. To fulfill the moral law, we need love. To get love, we… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
A bifurcation of loyalties that requires religious to put canon law above civil law and moral law puts us in a situation… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
I think Fichte did take it further than Kant by arguing that we can regard the moral law as objectively valid only… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
“Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm… — Plato Copy Share Image
Jesus teaches the redistribution of wealth - as long as the transfer is voluntary. But he is adamantly opposed to the involuntary… — Bryan Fischer Copy Share Image
“If there was a controlling power outside the universe, it could not show itself to us as one of the facts inside… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Thus the true, the good and the beautiful which ethical culture seeks can only come to perfection when the absolute good is… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
The road to the promised land runs past Sinai. The moral law may exist to be transcended: but there is no transcending… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Always, in Lincoln's mature theology, there is paradox. There is starting this, yet there is also tenderness; there is melancholy, yet there… — Elton Trueblood Copy Share Image
“A will whose maxims necessarily coincide with the laws of autonomy is a holy will, good absolutely. The dependence of a will… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
God help us, ma'am! Do you see what we saw? We saw that we'd been given a law to live by, a… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“As a corollary to the proposition that all institutions must be subordinated to the law of equal freedom, we cannot choose but… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
“The Moral Law isn't any one instinct or any set of instincts: it is something which makes a kind of tune (the… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“the problem of life was as simple as it was classic. Politics offered no difficulties, for there the moral law was a… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Though we have clear and full scriptures in the New Testament for abolishing the Ceremonial law, yet we nowhere read in all… — George Gillespie Copy Share Image
“Parrhesia is a kind of verbal activity where the speaker has a specific relation to truth through frankness, a certain relationship to… — Foucault, Michel Copy Share Image
There is no author or legislator of the moral law. It is simply valid in itself in the nature or essence of… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
“Those who think that modern times are wickeder than previous times are apt to identify the cause as the weakening of a… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
“So, once more, the question is: Does the Bible forbid homosexual behavior? Well, I’ve already said that it does. The Bible is… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
“There is a twofold liberty, natural (I mean as our nature is now corrupt) and civil or federal. The first is common… — Alexis De Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“to be a Jew is to belong to an old harmless race that has lived in every country in the world; and… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
“Two things fill the mind with every new and increasing wonder and awe, the oftener and the more steadily I reflect upon… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“On the other hand, the moral law, although it gives no such prospect, does provide a fact absolutely inexplicable from any data… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Hold your tongue, or I'll kill you! You'll kill me? No, excuse me, I will speak. I came to treat myself to… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“If tribulation is a necessary element in the redemption we must anticipate that it will never cease till God sees the world… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image