"Thinking that morality is all about commandments is a relatively new way of thinking, since the Reformation."

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"Thinking that morality is all about commandments is a relatively new way of thinking, since the Reformation."

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"The basic element that will distinguish those that are for godliness from those that are promoting ungodliness is if such individuals possess the spirit of godliness and not just a form of it."

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"Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"One act of a kind deed is better than thousand words of knowledge."

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"Shame on the misguided, the blinded, the distracted and the divided. Shame. You have allowed deceptive men to corrupt and desensitize your hearts and minds to unethically fuel their greed."

Suzy Kassem, American Writer

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"But my eagerness to sacrifice little children in order to save mankind is wearing thin."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

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"Extremes meet and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing."

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian Novelist

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"It is better to be kind than to seek much knowledge."

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"It is better to be slave to righteousness of God than sin of satan."

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