Edwin Louis Cole Quotes

The Ten Commandments are the divinely revealed law.

What the ten commandments set forth is a strategy. This strategy is a strategy for dominion.

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 Commandments.

If there's one thing for which I admire you, it's your original discovery of the Ten Commandments.

The Ten Commandments are the most visible symbol because these commandments are recognized by Christians and Jews alike as being the foundation of our system of public morality.

Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is that the Ten Commandments are a historical document that contains moral, ethical, and legal truisms that any person of any religion or even an atheist can recognize and appreciate.

The most important message that I can give to you and to all the world is to keep the commandments of God.

We don't put the Ten Commandments in school anymore. We just neglect everything and people act like the Ten Commandments is something so terrible. I mean, it's a way to live. I think we all could agree on what they say.

From a policy standpoint, the Judeo-Christian principles are important.

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

Better than worshiping gods is obedience to the laws of righteousness.

Theology always has moral implications, and morality is always undergirded by theology.

Once you depart from the Ten Commandments as being the foundation of right and wrong, you are in a free fall.

The scripture is God's plan on how we are to live our lives here and what we are to do to have eternal life.

I'm not a religious person in the regular sense, but in the Bible you're not allowed to steal, you're not allowed to lie and you're not allowed to feel you're above other people.

Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it.

[Even] The Pope can't repeal the Decalogue [the Ten Commandments].

Our moral compass - it's always been Judeo-Christian.

Man has made 32 million laws since THE COMMANDMENTS were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai more than three thousand years ago, but he has never improved on God's law. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS are the principles by which man may live with God and man may live with man. They are the expressions of the mind of God for His creatures. They are the charter and guide of human liberty, for there can be no liberty without the law.

The duties of men are summarily comprised in the Ten Commandments, consisting of two tables; one comprehending the duties which we owe immediately to God-the other, the duties we owe to our fellow men.

As she read the ten commandments for the first time, a Chinese woman said, "I don't see how anyone can very well get on without them."

Morality is the fruit of religion: to desire the former without the latter is to desire an orange without an orange-tree.

If it be true, as I believe it is, that morality is dependent upon religion, then religion is not only the most practical thing in the world, but the first essential.

I've always been interested in definitions, because in the Bible, the Ten Commandments are there but there's no real clear definition of what sin is, in a fundamental sense - how we can use the words to evaluate our lives as we go along: Am I doing something that is ethically good? Am I being worthwhile in my life at this moment?

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.