"To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction."

Morality, Authority, Fact, Obvious

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"To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction."

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

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"In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness with what is strange."

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"This much is true: When you are about to effect the lives of hundreds of people, Satan will do everything he can to prevent it from happening. Often pride and anger are his best assassins."

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"If any morality or ethics does not include kindness as their fundamental ingredient, then they are just an absurdity."

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"Good and evil are both within us. And when our primitive ancestors humanized these natural qualities of the mind, they got two completely opposite supernatural characters. One was the merciful lord almighty and the other was the wicked devil."

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