It is evident that an acquaintance with natural laws means no less than an acquaintance with the mind of God therein expressed.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
You don't know how to love God and your neighbor unless you look to the law to define it.
I thought I knew there was a God. I always acknowledged that, but at the same time, I didn't live by those laws.
The natural law is, in essence, a profoundly 'radical' ethic, for it holds the existing status quo, which might grossly violate natural law, up to the unsparing and unyielding light of reason.
For me, the study of these laws is inseparable from a love of Nature in all its manifestations.
The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God.
The laws of God, the laws of man he may keep that will and can; not I: let God and man decree laws for themselves and not for me.
No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God.
The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.
Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.
Easy, simple and great laws, which await nothing but a sign from the lawgiver to spread prosperity and vigour throughout the nation, laws which would earn him immortal hymns of gratitude down the generations, are those which are least considered or least wanted.