The voice of the higher law spoke to me again.

"We are bound by higher laws than those of earth."

"There are times when custom can be the higher law."

The grace of God is a higher law than any contract written in blood.

They also constitute the basis of the "higher law theory."

There is a higher law, that's what you used to say.

Individual rights must give way to the higher law of impending necessity.

But in almost all other matters, they were bound to a higher law.

The higher law was only shared with a few capable of understanding its meaning.

In other words, your children will be doing things you don't want, but there is a higher law.