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Moral progress3 quotes
I do not pretend to understand the moral universe, the arc is a long one... But from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice. — Theodore Parker · 1853We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice. — Martin Luther King, Jr. · 1968The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided man. — Martin Luther King, Jr. · 1961Progress3 quotes
I do not pretend to understand the moral universe, the arc is a long one... But from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice. — Theodore Parker · 1853We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice. — Martin Luther King, Jr. · 1968The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided man. — Martin Luther King, Jr. · 1961Death2 quotes
It comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal. — John Donne · 1621The bodies of those that made such a noise and tumult when alive, when dead, lie as quietly among the graves of their neighbors as any others. — Jonathan Edwards · 1834God and man2 quotes
The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire. — Jonathan Edwards · 1741The heart is like a viper, hissing, and spitting poison at God. — Jonathan Edwards · 1736America1 quote
We must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are on us. So that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword through the world. — John Winthrop · 1630America as example1 quote
We must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are on us. So that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword through the world. — John Winthrop · 1630Anti-war1 quote
I renounce war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatred it arouses, for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracy, for the starvation that stalks after it. — Harry Emerson Fosdick · 1933Art1 quote
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. — Henry Ward Beecher · 1887Artistic expression1 quote
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. — Henry Ward Beecher · 1887Asking for forgiveness1 quote
The Lord never tires of forgiving. It is we who tire of asking for forgiveness. — Pope Francis · 2014Civil rights1 quote
We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice. — Martin Luther King, Jr. · 1968Clothes make the man1 quote
Slovenliness is no part of religion; that neither this, nor any text of Scripture, condemns neatness of apparel. Certainly this a duty, not a sin. "Cleanliness is, indeed, next to godliness." — John Wesley · 1788Clothing1 quote
Slovenliness is no part of religion; that neither this, nor any text of Scripture, condemns neatness of apparel. Certainly this a duty, not a sin. "Cleanliness is, indeed, next to godliness." — John Wesley · 1788Consequences of war1 quote
I renounce war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatred it arouses, for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracy, for the starvation that stalks after it. — Harry Emerson Fosdick · 1933Decline of religion1 quote
We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires. — Pope Benedict XVI · 2005Divine revelation1 quote
The Lord has more truth yet to break forth out of his holy word. — John Robinson · 1620Doing a good job1 quote
Even if it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, go on out and sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures; sweep streets like Handel and Beethoven composed music; sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry; (Go ahead) sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will have to pause and say, "Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well." — Martin Luther King, Jr. · 1967Forgiveness1 quote
The Lord never tires of forgiving. It is we who tire of asking for forgiveness. — Pope Francis · 2014Forgiveness of sins1 quote
The Lord never tires of forgiving. It is we who tire of asking for forgiveness. — Pope Francis · 2014Freedom1 quote
Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought. — Pope John Paul II · 1995God1 quote
The name of this infinite and inexhaustible depth and ground of all being is God. — Paul Tillich · 1965God's wrath1 quote
The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire. — Jonathan Edwards · 1741Helping others1 quote
We must bear one another's burdens, we must not look only on our own things but also on the things of our brethren. — John Winthrop · 1630Justice1 quote
We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice. — Martin Luther King, Jr. · 1968Law1 quote
Whoever hath an absolute authority to interpret any written, or spoken laws; it is He, who is truly the Law-giver to all intents and purposes, and not the Person who first wrote, or spoke them. — Benjamin Hoadly · 1717Legal theory1 quote
Whoever hath an absolute authority to interpret any written, or spoken laws; it is He, who is truly the Law-giver to all intents and purposes, and not the Person who first wrote, or spoke them. — Benjamin Hoadly · 1717Life and death1 quote
The bodies of those that made such a noise and tumult when alive, when dead, lie as quietly among the graves of their neighbors as any others. — Jonathan Edwards · 1834Man1 quote
A little, wretched, despicable creature; a worm, a mere nothing, and less than nothing; a vile insect that has risen up in contempt against the majesty of heaven and earth? — Jonathan Edwards · 1734Moral relativism1 quote
We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires. — Pope Benedict XVI · 2005Nature of God1 quote
The name of this infinite and inexhaustible depth and ground of all being is God. — Paul Tillich · 1965