Faith & Spirit Quote by Roy Moore

“Rights come from God, not from government” is courtroom-ready theology: a sentence engineered to shift the venue of political argument from legislatures and constitutions to an unappealable higher court. As a judge, Roy Moore isn’t just making a devotional claim; he’s making a jurisdictional one. If rights are “from government,” they can be expanded, limited, and litigated. If they’re “from God,” then the state’s job is reduced to recognition, not creation, and any law that conflicts with Moore’s understanding of divine order becomes not merely wrong but illegitimate.

The line borrows the glow of America’s founding rhetoric (“unalienable Rights” endowed by a “Creator”) while quietly narrowing who gets to define that Creator’s demands. It sounds ecumenical, even patriotic, but the subtext is gatekeeping: which God, whose interpretation, and which rights count? In practice, “God” functions less as a shared premise than as a rhetorical trump card that preempts compromise. You can’t negotiate with revelation.

Context matters because Moore built a national profile by defying federal court orders over religious displays and same-sex marriage. In that light, the quote doubles as a justification for civil disobedience from the bench: when human institutions clash with his moral certainties, the institutions lose. It’s a powerful populist move, too, recasting judges and bureaucrats as usurpers and positioning the speaker as a guardian of a prior, purer authority.

The brilliance and danger of the phrasing is its simplicity: it flatters believers, delegitimizes opponents, and turns constitutional disputes into tests of faith.