"It's the Law of God that gave the stability to Christian civilization"
About this Quote
The key word is “stability.” It’s a soothing, managerial term that smuggles in a hard demand: stability for whom, and at what cost? Historically, calls for “stability” often mean preserving inherited hierarchies - family structure, gender roles, sexual norms, and institutional authority - under the aura of inevitability. “Christian civilization” functions as a cultural shorthand, not a precise descriptor. It compresses centuries of messy history into a single identity label, letting Terry imply that pluralism, secular law, and modern rights discourse are late-arriving intruders rather than part of the West’s actual development.
Context matters: Terry is a celebrity-activist whose influence comes from mobilizing outrage and moral certainty. In that ecosystem, ambiguity is weakness. The line flatters believers with a heroic self-conception (guardians of order) while converting political conflict into a cosmic one. It’s not a neutral claim about history; it’s a recruitment pitch. If stability is divine, then opponents aren’t rivals - they’re threats to the foundation, and extraordinary measures start to sound like duty.
Quote Details
| Topic | God |
|---|---|
| Source | Verified source: God’s Law and Society (Randall Terry, 1999)
Evidence:
It’s the Law of God that gave the stability to Christian civilization that they enjoy while they mock us. (Page 64). I found this quote in the primary-source workbook/booklet God’s Law and Society: Foundations in Christian Reconstruction, edited by Jay Rogers. The PDF states copyright © 1999 by J.C. Rogers Productions, with a PDF version copyright © 2006. On page 64, the text is explicitly attributed in context to Randall Terry. The commonly-circulated shorter version omits the trailing clause “that they enjoy while they mock us.” I did not find reliable evidence of an earlier book, speech transcript, or interview by Terry containing this wording before this 1999 source, so this is the earliest verifiable primary-source appearance I could confirm from accessible materials. |
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Terry, Randall. (2026, March 6). It's the Law of God that gave the stability to Christian civilization. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/its-the-law-of-god-that-gave-the-stability-to-165689/
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Terry, Randall. "It's the Law of God that gave the stability to Christian civilization." FixQuotes. March 6, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/its-the-law-of-god-that-gave-the-stability-to-165689/.
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"It's the Law of God that gave the stability to Christian civilization." FixQuotes, 6 Mar. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/its-the-law-of-god-that-gave-the-stability-to-165689/. Accessed 15 Mar. 2026.





