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"But you can't just leave it at that!" said Anathema, pushing forward. "Think of all things you could do! Good things."Like what?" said Adam suspiciously."Well... you could bring all the whales back, to start with."He put his head on one side. "An' that'd stop people killing them?"She hesitated. It would have been nice to say yes."An' if people do start killing 'em, what would you ask me to do about 'em?" said Adam. "No. I reckon I'm getting the hang of this now. Once I start messing around like that, there'd be no stoppin' it. Seems to me, the only sensible thing is for people to know if they kill a whale, they've got a dead whale."
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"Religion [dharma] is that where there is no irreligion (adharma, immorality). Religion cannot exist where there is irreligion. There can be only one or the other. Behind every intention, there is either [the force of] religion or [the force of] irreligion."
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"Doing good things for bad people is no different than doing bad things on good people."
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"We are all flawed and creatures of our times. Is it fair to judge us by the unknown standards of the future?"
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"Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good."
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"Of course, in the process, you must never do harm to others in any serious way, or you'll cease to amuse Him. Then payment comes due for promises you didn't keep."
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"It is better to be slave to righteousness than slave to sin."
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"Happiness at any price is no happiness at all."
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"Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience, then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right."
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"We have two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice and the other which we practice but seldom preach."
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"All ministries, therefore, must be subjected to this test-if they do not glorify Christ, they are not of the Holy Spirit."
Religion
"Oh, the stoop of the Redeemer's amazing love! Let us, henceforth, contend how low we can go side by side with Him, but remember when we have gone to the lowest He descends lower still, so that we can truly feel that the very lowest place is too high for us, because He has gone lower still."
Spiritual
"It is the tendency of deep feeling to subdue the manner rather than to render it too energetic."
Emotion
"My inward experience has often been a wilderness; but Thou hast owned me still as Thy beloved, and poured streams of love and grace into me to gladden me, and make me fruitful."
Spiritual
"The day we find the perfect church, it becomes imperfect the moment we join it."
Religion
"Morning dawns when the grace overcomes nature."
Spiritual
"The commonplace books of the old Puritans were invaluable to them. They would never have been able to compile such works as they did if they had not been careful in collecting and arranging their matter under different heads."
History
"To a great extent in spiritual things we get what we expect of the Lord. Faith alone can bring us to see Jesus."
Spiritual
"God loves the church with a love too deep for human imagination: He loves her with all His infinite heart. Therefore let her sons be of good courage, she cannot be far from prosperity."
Spiritual
"The commencement of all labor consisted in the preparation of his own soul."
Spiritual
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