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• 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

  Real, Law, Broken

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.41, HarperCollins UK

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• Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. I do not seek or conjecture either of them as if they were veiled obscurities or extravagances beyond the horizon of my vision; I see them before me and connect them immediately with the consciousness of my existence.

  Immanuel Kant

  Law, Two, Heaven

  "Critique of Practical Reason" (1788), translated in "The Cambridge Companion to Kant" by Paul Guyer, (p. 1), January 31, 1992.

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• Morals - all correct moral laws - derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Law, Moral Behavior, Survival

  "Starship Troopers". Book by Robert A. Heinlein, 1959.

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• 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

  Real, Law, Guarantees

  Jacques Lacan, Jacques-Alain Miller (2013). “The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 1959-1960: The Seminar of Jacques Lacan”, p.76, Routledge

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• But the Bible says that the unreached will be judged on a quite different basis than those who have heard the gospel. God will judge the unreached on the basis of their response to His self-revelation in nature and conscience. The Bible says that from the created order alone, all persons can know that a Creator God exists and that God has implanted His moral law in the hearts of all persons so that they are held morally accountable to God (Rom. 1.20; 2.14-15). The Bible promises salvation to anyone who responds affirmatively to this self-revelation of God

  William Lane Craig

  Heart, Law, Creator God

  "Can a Loving God Send People to Hell?". The Craig-Bradley Debate in Simon Fraiser University, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, www.reasonablefaith.org. January 1994.

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• The vermin explain their sin with sanctimonious language like, "We've prayed about it and sought counsel, and we feel it's the right thing to do." Don't let it down on them that to the Enemy what they feel is inconsequential. His moral laws don't give a rip about how any of them feel. The sludgebags have no more power to vote them in and out of existence than they have power to revoke the law of gravity.

  Randy Alcorn

  Rip, Law, Giving

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• The road to the promised land runs past Sinai. The moral law may exist to be transcended: but there is no transcending it for those who have not first admitted its claims up on them, and then tried with all their strength to meet that claim, and fairly and squarely faced the fact of their failure.

  C. S. Lewis

  Running, Past, Law

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• 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

  Science, Law, Two

  Critique of Practical Reason conclusion (1788) (translation by Lewis White Beck)

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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

  Buddhism, Law, Ideas

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• Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law.

  Ayn Rand

  Witty, Humor, Mean

  Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.305, Penguin

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• 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

  Self, Law, Acting

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Rights, Law, Together

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1816-1826”, p.43, Cosimo, Inc.

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• 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

  Law, May, Moral

  Louis Berkhof (1996). “Systematic Theology”, p.233, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Jesus teaches the redistribution of wealth - as long as the transfer is voluntary. But he is adamantly opposed to the involuntary redistribution of wealth, because that violates the moral law of God and is profoundly wrong. His words to take care of the poor are not addressed to government, they are addressed to us.

  Bryan Fischer

  Jesus, Government, Law

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• Sin is any failure to conform to the moral law of God in act, attitude, or nature

  Wayne Grudem

  Attitude, Law, Moral

  Wayne A. Grudem (2009). “Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine”, p.455, Harper Collins

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• Moral laws are set as a curb and restraint to these exorbitant desires, which they cannot be but by rewards and punishments, that will over-balance the satisfaction any one shall propose to himself in the breach of the law.

  John Locke

  Law, Punishment, Balance

  John Locke (1836). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.28

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• Harmony sinks deep into the recesses of the soul and takes its strongest hold there, bringing grace also to the body & mind as well. Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything. It is the essence of order.

  Plato

  Inspiration, Sadness, Order

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• Sin is lack of conformity to the moral law of God, either in act, disposition, or state

  Augustus Hopkins Strong

  Law, Moral, Conformity

  Augustus Hopkins Strong (2014). “Systematic Theology : Volume II (Illustrated)”, p.312, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Sin is not just breaking the rules, it is putting yourself in the place of God as Savior, Lord, and Judge… There are two ways to be your own Savior and Lord. One is by breaking all the moral laws and setting your own course, and one is by keeping all the moral laws and being very, very good.

  Timothy Keller

  God, Religious, Law

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith”, p.16, Penguin

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• When you say there's too much evil in this world you assume there's good. When you assume there's good, you assume there's such a thing as a moral law on the basis of which to differentiate between good and evil. But if you assume a moral law, you must posit a moral Law Giver, but that's Who you're trying to disprove and not prove. Because if there's no moral Law Giver, there's no moral law. If there's no moral law, there's no good. If there's no good, there's no evil. What is your question?

  Ravi Zacharias

  Law, Evil, Trying

  FaceBook post by Ravi Zacharias from Aug 20, 2014

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• Independence can be trusted nowhere but with the people in mass. They are inherently independent of all but moral law.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Independent, Law, People

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.317

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• MORAL LAW, Evidence of.- Man has been subjected by his Creator to the moral law, of which his feelings, or conscience as it is sometimes called, are the evidence with which his Creator has furnished him. ... The moral duties which exist between individual and individual in a state of nature, accompany them into a state of society ... their Maker not having released them from those duties on their forming themselves into a nation.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Law, Feelings

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• Freemasonry embraces the highest moral laws and will bear the test of
  any system of ethics or philosophy ever promulgated for the uplift of man.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Uplifting, Philosophy, Men

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• I had refused to pay any attention to the moral laws upon which all our vitality and sanity depend: and so now I was reduced to the condition of a silly old woman, worrying about a lot of imaginary rules of health, standards of food-value, and a thousand minute details of conduct that were in themselves completely ridiculous and stupid, and yet which haunted me with vague and terrific sanctions. If I eat this, I may go out of my mind. If I do not eat that, I may die in the night.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Stupid, Silly

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• There is a moral law in this world which has its application both to individuals and organized bodies of men. You cannot go on violating these laws in the name of your nation, yet enjoy their advantage as individuals. We may forget truth for our conv

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Men, Law, Names

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Miscellaneous writings”, p.1236, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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