Ted Dekker Quotes

Right and wrong as moral principles do not change. They are applicable and reliable determinants whether the situations with which we deal are simple or complicated. There is always a right and wrong to every question which requires our solution.

I know one thing you don't. I know the difference between Right and Wrong. They didn't teach you that at school.' Rose didn't answer; the woman was quite right: the two words meant nothing to her. Their taste was extinguished by stronger foods--Good and Evil.

The first idea the child must acquire is that of the difference between good and evil.

Willing or preferring is the same with respect to good and evil, that judging is with respect to truth or falsehood.

I have a morality. I don't know if it's the best morality. And I do like thinking. If people perceive that as a moral intellectualism, that's fine. That's up to them to decide.

Our moral philosophy determines our values - what we care about and what we don't care about - and our values determine our decisions, actions, and beliefs. Therefore, moral philosophy applies to everything in our lives.

The Moral Sense teaches us what is right, and how to avoid it-when unpopular.

You can't slice up morals.

Conscience is merely our own judgment of the right or wrong of our actions, and so can never be a safe guide unless enlightened by the word of God.

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

I think evil is very relative.

Fear is the mother of morality.

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and when people start getting it confused, that means they need to sit down with some real people.

Right and wrong are not simply matters of evolutionary impacts and what is natural.

The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.

Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.

One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.

Nature has no principles. She makes no distinction between good and evil.

Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.

The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.

Conscience without judgment is superstition.

Some things must be good in themselves, else there could be no measure whereby to lay out good and evil.

I still believe that something is right only when it feels right.

Judge Taney can do many things, but he cannot…change the essential nature of things—making evil good, and good, evil.

No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.