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Gabriel Biel Quotes on Virtue

Gabriel Biel was a German scholastic philosopher and theologian, sometimes called the last of the great medieval nominalists. This page collects quotes attributed to Gabriel Biel on the topic of virtue, drawn from across the philosopher's works.

Quotes

  • Attributed to Gabriel Biel:

    “God's commands are right because God commands them.”

  • Attributed to Gabriel Biel:

    “The will is freer than the intellect to follow or to resist the good.”

  • Attributed to Gabriel Biel:

    “What we owe to grace, we cannot owe to nature.”

  • Attributed to Gabriel Biel:

    “The covenant of God with humanity is the form of all moral law.”