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• He here, with remarkable dexterity, shifts the question from the moral order of our world (to which the moral actions of man can only relate) to the general order of the universe.
• The imagination...may of course engage us in pursuits utterly inconsistent with the moral order of things.
• But the Deputies must understand that the great necessity of to-day is the consolidation of order in the nation, and not only of material order, but of moral order also.
• He saw not till then his interest in...doing his duty, even at the peril of his life, and in cherishing virtue, not only for the sake of any moral order preferable to the love of himself, but for the sake of the Authour of his being.
• They are calculated to unhinge and subvert the whole frame and moral order of society.
• Those valuable classes of men who take the deepest interest in whatever appears to be connected with the moral order of the world.
• So may the gospel, though its phenomenon is but an event of nature, be referred to a principle, different from it, and which has for its end the producing of moral order in nature.
• The same awful impressions excited by the divine threatenings and punishments recorded in Scripture, and by the moral order of the world.
• So also the apostle expresses this great change as a new creation, or renewing, that is, being made again, or anew, after a moral order.
• The moral order embraces the totality of our duties towards God, towards ourselves, and towards our neighbours.
• The nation is the form of a moral order as surely as is the family or the church.
• Robert Wuthnow's (1987)...view is that the moral order is the system of all real and conceivable moral codes that "define the nature of commitment to a particular course of behaviour. These elements...have an identifiable symbolic structure."
• By thinking in these terms, we acknowledge all persons as irreplaceable and self-sufficient members of the moral order.
• “Do unto others as you would have others do unto you” is perhaps the most succinct definition of moral order ever expressed, given by both Confucius and Jesus in almost identical words from widely separated cultures and times.
• Human culture always implies moral order, and human persons are inescapably moral agents.