Gary North Quotes

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."

DECALOGUE, n. A series of commandments, ten in number - just enough to permit an intelligent selection for observance, but not enough to embarrass the choice.

The Ten Commandments are the divinely revealed law.

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

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 Speaker, the fact of the matter is that the Ten Commandments are a historical document that contains moral, ethical, and legal truisms that any person of any religion or even an atheist can recognize and appreciate.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 Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests.

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

Congress is going to start tinkering with the Ten Commandments just as soon as they find someone in Washington who has read them.

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.

Our goal must be simple. We must have a Christian nation built on God's law, on the ten Commandments. No apologies.

There are ten commandments, I've only broken three.

A person who is fundamentally honest doesn't need a code of ethics. The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs.

Those...who insist that there are some moral limits that they will not violate, are forever surprising themselves.

As a rule of thumb I say, if Socrates, Jesus and Tolstoy wouldn't do it, don't.

Let us with Caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.

The duty of man is not a wilderness of turnpike gates, through which he is to pass by tickets from one to the other. It is plain and simple, and consists but of two points--his duty God, which every man must feel; and, with respect to his neighbor, to do as he would be done by.

Golden Rule lies at the heart of every religious and of every ethical system of morality, it what makes us look at one another. The religions have all adopted it independently, Chinese, Indian, Muslim, Christian, Jewish, because they find it works and because it says something very deep about the structure of our humanity.

Absolute morality is the regulation of conduct in such a way that pain shall not be inflicted.

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.

I do not know what might be the most fitting description.... I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner. And this is what I said when they asked me if I would accept my election as pontiff: I am a sinner, but I trust in the infinite mercy and patience of our Lord Jesus Christ, and I accept in a spirit of penance.

Moral laws are set as a curb and restraint to these exorbitant desires, which they cannot be but by rewards and punishments, that will over-balance the satisfaction any one shall propose to himself in the breach of the law.

To turn one's eyes away from Jesus means to turn them to the Law.

Today Jesus Christ is being dispatched as the Figurehead of a Religion, a mere example. He is that, but he is infinitely more; He is salvation itself, He is the Gospel of God.

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