Randall Terry Quotes

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.

The fundamental basis of ethics must be chosen in some non-scientific way.

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

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.

Whenever you find a man who says he does not believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back on this a moment later. He may break his promise to you, but if you try breaking one to him he will be complaining 'It's not fair' before you can say Jack Robinson.

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.

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

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?

There is really no right and wrong. I recognize no right and wrong.

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

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

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.

Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.

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

The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests.

Most people believe you have to have some moral absolutes if you want to hold back chaos.

A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law, or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law.

Moral principles have lost their distinctiveness. For modern man, absolute right and absolute wrong are a matter of what the majority is doing.

But let us emphasize that right and wrong, righteousness and sin, are not dependent upon man's interpretations, conventions and attitudes. Social acceptance does not change the status of an act, making wrong into right. If all the people in the world were to accept homosexuality, the practice would still be a deep, dark sin.

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

Some people want tolerance to mean now that all ideas are equally valid. That's nonsense. There are some things that are right and there are some things that are wrong.

The Moral Law is summarily contained in the Decalogue or Ten Commandments; written by the finger of God on two tablets of stone, and delivered to Moses on Mount Sinai.

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.

George Washington understood that the Bible is the place where God's records of right and wrong are kept.

Call me old-fashioned, but I believe that morality is not just a matter of opinion.