“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
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 Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the keys. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
A nation, as an individual, has duties to fulfill appointed by God and His moral law. — Benjamin Disraeli 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
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
There is a universal moral law, as distinct from a moral code, which consists of certain statements of fact about the nature… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“In his own way each man must struggle, lest the moral law become a far-off abstraction utterly separated from his active life.” — Jane Addams 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
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
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
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
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
“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
It is plain that there is one moral law for heaven and another for the earth. The pulpit assures us that wherever… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The artist is to be exempt from the moral laws that are binding on ordinary people. Just pronounce the magic word "Art,"… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Anarchism may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and… — Benjamin Tucker 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
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
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
“This bicovenantal nature of God’s plan for redemption is important in theonomy’s argument that there is one moral law revelaed in Scripture… — William O. Einwechter Copy Share Image
“At this point, godless materialists might be cheering. If humans evolved strictly by mutation and natural selection, who needs God to explain… — Francis s. Collins Copy Share Image
The concept of absolute, hence (or whence) springs, in the moral field, the moral laws or norms, represent, in the field of… — African Spir Copy Share Image
Political realism is aware of the moral significance of political action. It is also aware of the ineluctable tension between the moral… — Anonymous 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
“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
“When a soul in sin, under the impetus of grace, turns to God, there is penance; but when a soul in sin… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“It's God that's worrying me. That's the only thing that's worrying me. What if He doesn't exist? What if Rakitin's right -that… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Moral law is an invention of mankind for the disenfranchisement of the powerful in favor of the weak. Historical law subverts it… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
The moral law is simply the way we think our own freedom as self-determination. — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Sin is lack of conformity to the moral law of God, either in act, disposition, or state — Augustus Hopkins Strong Copy Share Image