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Conscience is the internal perception of God's Moral Law. -- Oswald Chambers
The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the keys. -- C. S. Lewis
There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. If God is like the Moral Law, then He is not soft. -- C. S. Lewis
5,6. The Moral Law causes the people to be in complete accord with their ruler, so that they will follow him regardless of their lives, undismayed by any danger. -- Sun Tzu
The Moral Law is summarily contained in the Decalogue or Ten Commandments; written by the finger of God on two tablets of stone, and delivered to Moses on Mount Sinai. -- Noah Webster
There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. It tells you to do the straight thing and it does not seem to care how painful, or dangerous, or difficult it is to do. -- C. S. Lewis
You find out more about God from the Moral Law than from the univerise in general just as you find out more about a man by listening to his conversation than by looking at a house he has built. -- C. S. Lewis
5,6. The Moral Law causes the people to be in complete accord with their ruler, so that they will follow him regardless of their lives, undismayed by any danger.Excerpt From: Sunzi. The Art of War.iBooks. This material may be protected by copyright. -- Sun Tzu
It is after you have realized that there is a real Moral Law, and a Power behind the law, and that you have broken that law and put yourself wrong with that Power -- it is after all this, and not a moment sooner, that Christianity begins to talk. -- C. S. Lewis
Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law. -- Ayn Rand
Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me. -- Immanuel Kant
The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct. -- Paul Ricoeur
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. -- Plato
Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul. -- George Bancroft
The will to set values and the power to make them law are jointly at the bottom of all operative norms. When linked to divine wisdom, this source of moral law is still in safe hands which man can trust. -- Hans Jonas
Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver. -- Alan Watts
Moral principle is the foundation of law. -- Ronald Dworkin
Law is the embodiment of the moral sentiment of the people. -- William Blackstone
The immoral cannot be made moral through the use of secret law. -- Edward Snowden
The moral law is simply the way we think our own freedom as self-determination. -- Allen W. Wood
The law functions as formal embodiment of a moral code, not as free-standing substitute for it. -- Mark Steyn
A nation, as an individual, has duties to fulfill appointed by God and His moral law. -- Benjamin Disraeli
No, moral conscience is one thing, the law is another. We have to hold onto this difference. -- Rocco Buttiglione
To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Sin is lack of conformity to the moral law of God, either in act, disposition, or state -- Augustus Hopkins Strong
Sin is any failure to conform to the moral law of God in act, attitude, or nature -- Wayne Grudem
National character cannot be built by law. It is the sum of the moral fiber of its individuals. -- Herbert Hoover
Whenever "A" attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon "B," "A" is most likely a scoundrel. -- H. L. Mencken
There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The moral world is as little exempt as the physical world from the law of ceaseless change, of perpetual flux. -- James G. Frazer
Independence can be trusted nowhere but with the people in mass. They are inherently independent of all but moral law. -- Thomas Jefferson
[Women's] duty is nothing else than the fulfilment [sic] of the whole moral law, the attainment of every human virtue. -- Frances Power Cobbe
Evolution may explain some features of the moral law, but it can't explain why it should have any real significance. -- Richard Dawkins
One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity. -- C. S. Lewis
Mankind is one, seeing that all are equally subject to the moral law. All men are equal in God's eyes. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Music is moral law. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is good, true and beautiful. -- Plato
It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright. -- Murray Rothbard
The Law given from Sinai [The Ten Commandments] was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code. -- John Quincy Adams
Every doer of the law and every moral worker is accursed, for he walketh in the presumption of his own righteousness. -- Martin Luther
Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing. -- Kate Atkinson
Ordinary human laws are the means - however imperfect - by which we express our understanding of the enduring moral law. -- Russell Kirk
Ordinary human laws are the means -- however imperfect -- by which we express our understanding of the enduring moral law. -- Russell Kirk
No member of the faithful could possibly deny that the Church is competent in her magisterium to interpret the natural moral law. -- Pope Paul VI
Unbounded morality ultimately becomes counterproductive even in terms of the same moral principles being sought. The law of diminishing returns applies to morality. -- Thomas Sowell
Law is vulnerable to the winds of intellectual or moral fashion, which it then validates as the commands of our most basic concept -- Robert Bork
"Rituals" don't make you righteous, it's uprightness: living up to moral principles and ethical principles, and submitting to universal law established by God. -- Louis Farrakhan
Morality, like other inputs into the social process, follows the law of diminishing returns- meaning ultimately, negative returns. People can be too moral. -- Thomas Sowell
The consummate leader cultivates the moral law, and strictly adheres to method and discipline; thus it is in his power to control success. -- Sun Tzu
Moses simplifies the whole duty of Israel (and of humanity) by crystalizing the moral law into a single command to love God supremely. -- Max Anders
The human soul is on its journey from the law to love, from discipline to liberation, from the moral plane to the spiritual. -- Rabindranath Tagore
A law is something which must have a moral basis, so that there is an inner compelling force for every citizen to obey. -- Chaim Weizmann
The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgment that the community has already reached. -- Woodrow Wilson
Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort. -- Stephen Leacock
Without commonly shared and widely entrenched moral values and obligations, neither the law, nor democratic government, nor even the market economy will function properly. -- Vaclav Havel
The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Buddha emphasized and re-declared the eternal and unalterable existence of the moral government of this universe. He unhesitatingly said that the law was God Himself. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Whenever you try to break God's moral law, you end up breaking yourself and hurting others - all while proving His law in the process. -- Ravi Zacharias
The denial of an objective moral law, based on the compulsion to deny the existence of God, results ultimately in the denial of evil iteself. -- Ravi Zacharias
When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law. -- Frederic Bastiat
Man's duty is to improve himself; to cultivate his mind; and, when he finds himself going astray, to bring the moral law to bear upon himself. -- Immanuel Kant
If you have a moral law then you must have a moral law giver. You don't get a moral law unless there's a moral law giver. -- Frank Turek
Italians tend to be less rigidly moral and law-abiding than do Anglo-Saxons. They also have a profound suspicion of the state and most of its agencies. -- Donna Leon
A regime which puts in a bunker the highest law in the land does not have the moral authority to say that nobody is above the law. -- Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge. -- Robert Bork
We look upon this shaken earth, and we declare our firm and fixed purpose-the building of a peace with justice in a world where moral law prevails. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
In conclusion it may be said that sin may be defined as lack of conformity to the moral law of God, either in act, disposition, or state -- Louis Berkhof
As for the law of moral causation ('karma'): this is human justice dressed up as cosmic justice and then imputed to the impersonal workings of the natural world. -- Stephen Batchelor
I think we certainly benefit from social institutions which encourage us towards moral behavior. It's very important to have law. It's very important to have a moral education. -- Richard Dawkins
Whether [Turkey] is a NATO country or not, it doesn't have the right to invade any other country according to the international law or to any other moral value. -- Bashar al-Assad
I wasn't reading it [the Bible] as literature. I was reading it as literature, and as history, and as a moral guide, and as anthropology and law and culture. -- David Plotz
One might rationally argue that individual human beings should be free choose what moral behavior they approve of, and which they don't, subject to the constraints of the law. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
My thesis is that the moral law is articulated with relation to the real as such, to the real insofar as it can be the guarantee of the Thing. -- Jacques Lacan
When President Clinton starts talking about what is moral, as he did when recommending a national law banning human cloning, it's time for us to lock up our daughters. -- Cal Thomas
I would hope that we can load our moral computers with three elements of integrity: 1. Dealing justly with oneself. 2. Dealing justly with others. 3. Recognizing the law of the harvest. -- James E. Faust
We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and achieve it merely by law. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The obligation of human beings to support and obey human governments, while they legislate upon the principles of the moral law, is an unalterable as the moral law itself. -- Charles Grandison Finney
Kant says that we may regard ourselves as legislator of the moral law, and consider ourselves as its author, but not that we are legislators or authors of the law. -- Allen W. Wood
The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and nursery-like belief in objective values, we perish. -- C. S. Lewis
When a man is guided by the principles of reciprocity and consciousness, he is not far from the moral law. Whatever you don't wish for yourself don't do unto others. -- Confucius
What is central to morality is rational self-constraint (acting from duty), in cease where there is no other incentive to do your duty except that the moral law commands it. -- Allen W. Wood
Beauty is but the sensible image of the infinite. Like truth and justice, it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law, it is a companion of the soul. -- George Bancroft
No matter what theory of the origin of government you adopt, if you follow it out to its legitimate conclusions it will bring you face to face with the moral law. -- Henry Van Dyke
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above and the moral law within. -- Immanuel Kant
Just, harmonious, temperate as is the spirit of liberty, there is in the name and mere notion of it a vagueness so opposite to the definite clearness of the moral law.... -- Augustus William Hare
The moral law of God is the only law of individuals and of nations, and nothing can be rightful government but such as is established and administered with a view to its support. -- Charles Grandison Finney
A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law, or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Kant thinks that a free will is a will under moral laws and that freedom and the moral law are distinct thoughts that reciprocally imply each other. Fichte thinks they are the same thought. -- Allen W. Wood
It is hard enough to face the moral law even with the revelation that the divine justice and divine mercy are conjoined. It offends our pride to be forgiven, terrifies it to surrender control. -- J. Budziszewski
History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity. -- James Anthony Froude
The egoist ... destroys the universal importance accorded to moral law by showing that life independent of it is possible. Secondly, and even more intolerably to the pious, he manages to do so with shameless enjoyment. -- John Carroll

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