Frederick William Faber Quotes

A principle is a principle, and God created all the principles.

Faith accepts the Bible as the word and will of God and rests upon its truth without question and without other evidence.

There must be right and wrong answers to questions of morality and values that potentially fall within the purview of science. On this view, some people and cultures will be right (to a greater or lesser degree), and some will be wrong, with respect to what they deem important in life.

What Bill O'Reilly says means nothing. What Stephen Bennett says means nothing. What God says means everything.

Obey human laws that do not conflict with God's laws.

Without God and religion you don't have moral truth, you have moral opinion

Moral principles do not depend on a majority vote. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong. Right is right, even if nobody is right.

There is only one morality, as there is only one geometry.

Either what we hold to be right and good and true IS right and good and true, for all mankind, or we're just another robber tribe.

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.

The hero can never be a relativist.

Ethics and religion differ herein; that the one is the system of human duties commencing from man; the other, from God. Religion includes the personality of God; Ethics does not.

There being no absolute and universal standard of right, terrorism must be held to be wrong in every case.

I don't think that the laws can be considered to be like God because they have been figured out.

There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.

There's laws that we must live by, and they're not the laws of man.

If we will measure other people's corn in our own bushel, let us first take it to the Divine standard, and have it sealed.

There is no little sin, because no little God to sin against.

I don't know whether any religious leader would say that we must ultimately win, because we're on God's side. If they do say that, it's bad religion.

God keep me from the divinity of Yes and Nothe Yea Nay Creeping Jesus, from supposing Up and Down to be the same thing as allexperimentalists must suppose.

I have faith in the Torah. I am not afraid of truth.

... no human actions ever were intended by the Maker of men to be guided by balances of expediency, but by balances of justice.

Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right.

Abstractions about right and wrong, whether they are as old as Thou Shalt Not Kill or as modern as Do Your Own Thing, often serve only to confuse and weaken genuine moral decision.

But let us emphasize that right and wrong, righteousness and sin, are not dependent upon man's interpretations, conventions and attitudes. Social acceptance does not change the status of an act, making wrong into right. If all the people in the world were to accept homosexuality, the practice would still be a deep, dark sin.