Ted Koppel Quotes

First, it is not unimportant that the legislative texts of the Old Testament are placed in the mouth of Moses and within the narrative framework of the sojourn at Sinai.

You don't know how to love God and your neighbor unless you look to the law to define it.

God handed his word to Moses. He didn't need the Tennessee General Assembly's help.

The Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.

If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.

Man, double-faced by nature, is placed by Revelation under a sharp, precise external rule, controlling his actions and his thoughts.

Thousands of years ago there were people who complained that Moses had only 10 commandments instead of 12.

Capital Punishment is a non-diminishable command of God. No pope has the authority to go against God's stated will.

God's law is God's law, period. Teach your children that.

The most enduring Top 10 ever written wasn't written at all, but chiseled onto stone tablets and conveyed down Mount Sinai by Moses, who introduced to the world not just a set of Biblical precepts but also a new format for starting arguments: the list of 10 things.

We must never allow the majority to overrule the clear teaching of the Word of God.

No government may remain strong by ignoring the commandments given to Moses on Mount Sinai.

The TEN Commandments are not prefaced with "If you're in the mood".

If God had been a Liberal there wouldn't have been Ten Commandments, there would have been Ten Suggestions.

… in this state [a theocracy] the highest and only authority belonged to God, to whose worship all other things were made subservient.

The only points in which I differ from all ecclesiastical teaching is that I do not believe that any man ever saw or talked with God, I do not believe that God inspired the Mosaic code, or told the historians what they say he did about woman, for all the religions on the face of the earth degrade her, and so long as woman accepts the position that they assign her, her emancipation is impossible.

If the angel Gabriel came to me and said, 'Look, I'm willing to take your soul now and give it back to you at any period of time in the history of the nation of Israel, from the very beginning to this very day' - I think I would not think of any other time except for when Moses brought down the Ten Commandments from Mount Sinai.

God created man to work for his food and said that those who ate without work were thieves.

The law... dictated by God Himself is, of course, superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times. No human laws are of any validity if contrary to this.

The Bible - the wisest document ever known in human existence, which defies the ravages of time and change because it contains the truth that cannot be changed or invalidated.

The highest service to which a man may obtain on earth is to preach the law of God.

I believe the Bible to be the written Word of God and to contain in it the whole rule of faith and manners.

If you're going to say you're Catholic, you inform your conscience so that you're activities will conform to what God is telling us through the Church. If God is telling you something outside of that, well, the Church will look at that and say: we think it is true or we don't think it is true. The Church might say: that might be true for you but it has no public normative value.

Stern daughter of the voice of God! O Duty! if that name thou love Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring and reprove.

Morality rests upon a sense of obligation; and obligation has no meaning except as implying a Divine command, without which it would cease to be.