Lawgiver Quotes

17 quotes by 16 authors

The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver. — Baron de Montesquieu
If you enroll as one of God's people, then heaven is your country and God your lawgiver. — Clement of Alexandria
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
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
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
I hold that we have a very imperfect knowledge of the works of nature till we view them as works of God,â€” not only as… — James McCosh
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
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
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
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
It is precisely womenâ€™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
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
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
Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver. — Alan Watts
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
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
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

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