What They Said

“If there is no absolute moral standard, then one cannot say in a final sense that anything is right or wrong. By absolute we mean that which always applies, that which provides a final or ultimate standard. There must be an absolute if there are to be morals, and there must be an absolute if there are to be real values. If there is no absolute beyond man’s ideas, then there is no final appeal to judge between individuals and groups whose moral judgments conflict. We are merely left with conflicting opinions.”

Francis Schaeffer

“Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches.”

George Whitefield

“A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.”

G.K. Chesterton

"Morality may damn as well as vice. A vessel may be sunk with gold, as well as with dung."

Thomas Watson

(The Beatitudes: An Exposition of Matthew 5:1-12)

"Now, our increasingly humanistic laws, courts, and legislators are giving us a new morality. They tell us, as they strike down laws resting upon Biblical foundations, that morality cannot be legislated, but what they offer is not only legislated morality but salvation by law, and no Christian can accept this. Wherever we look now, whether with respect to poverty, education, civil rights, human rights, peace, and all things else, we see laws passed designed to save man. Supposedly, these laws are going to give us a society free of prejudice, ignorance, disease, poverty, crime, war, and all other things considered to be evil. These legislative programs add up to one thing: salvation by law."

R.J. Rushdoony