Commandments Quote by Timothy Radcliffe Download Open image “Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments.” — Timothy Radcliffe ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Commandments Seeking
Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution. — Randall Terry Copy Share Image
Do you advocate the Ten Commandments as a guide to the good life? Then I can only presume that you don't know the Ten… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
For most people, the question why be good - as distinguished from merely law abiding - is a simple one. Because God commands it,… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
All that is good is not embodied in the law; and all that is evil is not proscribed by the law. A well-disciplined society… — William F. Buckley, Jr Copy Share Image
The better life rests less on the prohibitions of the Ten Commandments and more on the parable of the Good Samaritan and the Golden… — David Josiah Brewer Copy Share Image
There are no rules in the service of God, and this itself is no rule. — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
The state can be a force for good. The Rule of law is absolutely essential to a good life. God has instituted government and… — Dave Brat Copy Share Image
There is only one good. And that is to act according to the dictates of one's conscience. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
It is not preaching any rules the world wants, but love and action. — Shoghi Effendi Copy Share Image
“Orthodoxy is the wide open field within which successful breeding can take place. If one maintains that Jesus was an eater of magic mushrooms… — Timothy Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Clearly a big challenge for Christianity is how to remain in contact with the millions of people who look for God but do not… — Timothy Radcliffe Copy Share Image
We need the wisdom of women, and the experience of married people and parents, and the depth of the contemplative if we are to… — Timothy Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Our society has lost confidence in the power of reason, except perhaps scientific reason. — Timothy Radcliffe Copy Share Image
At the centre of Christianity is community; we are gathered by the Lord around the altar. — Timothy Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Any deep-rooted prejudice against others, such as homophobia or misogyny, would be grounds for rejecting a candidate for the priesthood, but not their sexual… — Timothy Radcliffe Copy Share Image
The unutterable violence of the Holocaust shook our confidence in the possibility of telling any story of faith at all. — Timothy Radcliffe Copy Share Image
To be a preacher requires two apparently contradictory qualities: confidence and humility. — Timothy Radcliffe Copy Share Image
The key question for the future of Europe is whether these faiths will live together in peace or whether they will tear Europe apart. — Timothy Radcliffe Copy Share Image
To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness. — Timothy Radcliffe Copy Share Image
Thinking that morality is all about commandments is a relatively new way of thinking, since the Reformation. — Timothy Radcliffe Copy Share Image
May God bless each of us in our calls to serve. May our faith strengthen as we serve in righteousness, faithfully keeping the commandments.… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
The Ten Commandments don't tell you what you ought to do: They only put ideas into your head. — Elizabeth Bibesco Copy Share Image
In tantra we don't believe in commandments. We believe in the moment and the truth that is applicable for that moment, as best we… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In my book I specifically discussed the structural nature of injustice and offered Nine Touchstones of Goddess ethics as an alternative to the Ten… — Carol P. Christ Copy Share Image
My plea therefore is this: Let us get our instruments tightly strung and our melodies sweetly sung. Let us not die with our music… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
For what will it profit men that a more prudent distribution and use of riches make it possible for them to gain even the… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
Here is your government at work. A congressman from Colorado said he wants to draft a rule that would make it unethical to have… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the LORD charged you, to love the LORD… — Thomas Morell Copy Share Image
The second commandment is "Thou shall not construct any graven images." Is this really the pinnacle of what we can achieve morally? The second… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
How we conduct ourselves in this life will determine what we will be in all the eternities to come. To receive the blessings of… — Robert D. Hales Copy Share Image
So long as we stand "under the Law", we cannot perceive this hidden unity of all the commandments. It is part of legalism that… — Emil Brunner Copy Share Image
