Daily Inspiration Quote by Roy Moore

Moore’s line is doing double duty: it’s framed as a lament about spiritual amnesia, but it’s really an accusation of political illegitimacy. The “they” is strategically vague, a silhouette large enough to hold judges, lawmakers, secular activists, federal bureaucrats, the media - whoever his audience already distrusts. By keeping the target fuzzy, he turns the sentence into a loyalty test: if you bristle, you might be one of “them.”

The key move is the phrase “authority higher than the authority of the state.” It doesn’t just elevate God; it demotes the modern constitutional order by implying that state power is at best provisional, at worst impious. In American civic religion, that’s potent: it borrows the moral certainty of faith to challenge the procedural legitimacy of courts, elections, and pluralistic compromise. The subtext is that secular governance isn’t merely mistaken, it’s spiritually suspect - a willful refusal to “be reminded,” as if the conflict is less about legal interpretation than about stubbornness and sin.

Context matters because Moore’s public career repeatedly staged this clash as theater: Ten Commandments monument fights, defiance of federal court orders, culture-war positioning that treats judicial restraint as capitulation. The quote is calibrated to recast disobedience as conscience. It invites supporters to see legal constraints as coercion and religious assertion as liberation, flipping the usual concern about theocracy into a warning about an overreaching state. The rhetorical trick is that it sounds like humility before God while functioning as a claim to higher jurisdiction in public life.