S. Truett Cathy Quotes

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

You don't have to be a Christian to work at Chick-fil-A, but we ask you to base your business on biblical principles because they work.

I don't do things which are wrong according to Jesus. Like don't make 'bad' relations with anyone except your husband.

Having a Christian worldview shapes my decision-making with respect to all aspects of my life. I always respect people in public life who are principled, and those principles have to be connected to something. And my faith is what serves as the anchor and directs my actions.

I'm a person that's grounded in faith and believe that my core values, motivation, inspiration, draw from a conception of the world in that way.

So obviously, any religion embodies some form of rules and expectations for behavior, and even sometimes consequences, and they don't want to hear any of that.

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

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.

My views as a Christian means there's a moral plumb line that I'm fighting to adhere to.

Most people believe that the Christian commandments are intentionally a little too severe

Official morality has always been oppressive and negative: it has said "thou shalt not," and has not troubled to investigate the effect of activities not forbidden by the code.

We can’t expect the nation to operate by Christian principles… but we can expect this of the church.

Christian principles are, admittedly, stricter than the others; but then we think you will get help towards obeying them which you will not get towards obeying the others.

Religion and virtue are the only foundations, not of republicanism and of all free government, but of social felicity under all government and in all the combinations of human society.

The relationship between the films and the individual Commandments [is] a tentative one. The films should be influenced by the individual Commandments to the same degree that the Commandments influence our daily lives.

The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scripture ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws.

The great difficulty about keeping the Ten Commandments is that no man can keep them and be a gentleman.

I will begin with the self-styled "Christian" party, who profess to base their morality on the New Testament. But whether it is really more Christian to follow or to ignore the teachings of the Gospels I shall not discuss.

If we desire rules to govern our spiritual development we turn back to the Sermon on the Mount.

Morality represents for everybody a thoroughly definite and ascertained idea: the idea of human conduct regulated in a certain manner.

For many people, morality means a set of rules governing the disposition on one's genital organs; or a set of injunctions against lying, stealing, or killing except when such acts are sanctioned by church or state.

A man should be religious, not superstitious.

All true religion must stand on true morality.

The first thing to get clear about Christian morality between man and man is that in this department Christ did not come to teach any brand new morality. The Golden Rule of the New Testament (Do as you would be done by) is a summing up of what everyone, at bottom, had always known to be right.

Commandments are opportunities to exercise our agency and to receive blessings.