Lawgiver Quotes
17 quotes by 16 authors
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The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
— Baron de Montesquieu
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If you enroll as one of God's people, then heaven is your country and God your lawgiver.
— Clement of Alexandria
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If Moses is our lawgiver [Old Testament prophet given laws by God] at this time let us obey him, not in part only, but wholly,…
— Gerald Heaney
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In science, law is not a rule imposed from without, but an expression of an intrinsic process. The laws of the lawgiver are impotent beside…
— Clifford Allbutt
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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…
— Charles Grandison Finney
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I hold that we have a very imperfect knowledge of the works of nature till we view them as works of God,— not only as…
— James McCosh
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Each man is his own absolute lawgiver, the dispenser of glory or gloom to himself; the decreer of his life, his reward, his punishment.
— Mabel Collins
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The mystery of the universe, and the meaning of God's world, are shrouded in hopeless obscurity, until we learn to feel that all laws suppose…
— Alexander MacLaren
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The computer programmer is a creator of universes for which he alone is the lawgiver. No playwright, no stage director, no emperor, however powerful, has…
— Joseph Weizenbaum
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Conscience has nothing to do as lawgiver or judge; but is a witness against me if I do wrong, and which approves if I do…
— Unknown Author
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It is precisely women’s experience of God that this world lacks. A world that does not nurture its weakest, does not know God the birthing…
— Joan D. Chittister
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He needs no library, for he has not done thinking; no church, for he is himself a prophet; no statute book, for he hath the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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How can he [today's writer] be honored, when he does not honor himself; when he loses himself in the crowd; when he is no longer…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.
— Alan Watts
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The right to freedom is the gift of God Almighty....The rights of the Colonists as Christians may be best understood by reading, and carefully studying…
— Samuel Adams
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In truth, there never was any remarkable lawgiver amongst any people who did not resort to divine authority, as otherwise his laws would not have…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Laws are essential emanations from the self-poised character of God; they radiate from the sun to the circling edge of creation. Verily, the mighty Lawgiver…
— Theodore Roosevelt
Who Wrote These Lawgiver Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 17 Lawgiver Quotes as follows: