Absolutes Quote by D. Todd Christofferson

“Theism, however, teaches that not only is there a moral universe but there is an absolute standard by which all moral judgments are measured.…

— James W. Sire

I consider the doctrines of Jesus as delivered by himself to contain the outlines of the sublimest system of morality that has ever been…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Morality is totally God’s standard, and his standards and conditions are revealed to us through his written word, the Scriptures (The Bible).”

— Reid A. Ashbaucher

Over the centuries, we've moved on from Scripture to accumulate precepts of ethical, legal and moral philosophy. We've evolved a liberal consensus of what…

— Richard Dawkins

“I have argued elsewhere (Fighting Words: The Origins of Religious Violence [2005]) that we need to treat ethics in biblical texts just as we…

— Hector Avalos

“If you will bear in mind that Socrates, the best of the pagans, knew of no higher criterion for men, of no better guide…

— Lord Acton (John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton

There are three points of doctrine the belief of which forms the foundation of all morality. The first is the existence of God; the…

— John Quincy Adams

“Assimilated by the deceit of its divine origin, its tenets are reward for obedience, punishment for transgression, both holding good for all time (this…

— Austin Osman, Spare

“If one does not have the basic conscientious capacity to refute the primitive textual verses of the scriptures that demand one to kill or…

— Abhijit Naskar

We are not philosophers, we are sovereigns. The rules that govern our behavior are not the rules for other men, and our honor, I…

— Megan Whalen Turner

Reasonable ideas which find their sanction in the conscience of the righteous do not die; they are consequently realities and active forces, but they…

— Ernesto Teodoro Moneta

That the system of morals propounded in the New Testament contained no maxim which had not been previously enunciated, and that some of the…

— Henry Thomas Buckle