You are writing a gospel, A chapter each day, By the deeds that you do And the words that you say. Men read what you write, Whether faithful or true: Just what is the gospel According to you? - SOURCE...

As Philip Jenkins explains, "At its worst, the gospel of prosperity permits corrupt clergy to get away with virtually anything. Not only can they coerce the faithful to pay their obligations through a...

So my argument in this book is this: we should not be more loyal to an idea, a doctrine, or an interpretation of a Bible verse than we are to people. If the teachings of the church are harming the...

Loyalty,

Cowards are nice, they're interesting, they're gentle, they wouldn't think of shooting down people in a parade from a tower. They want to live, so they can see their kids. They're very brave.

John Wesley: Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you can. As long as ever you can.

The moral and spiritual imperatives of religion are important for humanity and should not be relegated unthinkingly to the scrap heap of history in the interests of an unfettered rationalism.

... but this is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, about making prison merely a hygienic environment like a hospital, of healing sin by slow scientific...

"... When a man aspires to power, I ask one simple question: 'Does he think like a businessman?' Luisa rolls her napkin into a compact ball. 'I ask three simple questions. How did he get that power?...

The religious literature handed out by the earnest young missionaries in Temple Square makes no mention of the fact that Joseph Smith - - still the religion's focal personage - - married at least...

The full story, however, is told in Steve Inskeep's recent book Jacksonland, which I will rely on for my subsequent account. "Jackson managed national security affairs in a way that matched his...

"Take one, and you cannot take the other," she said. "But neither path is safe. Which way would you walk - the way of hard truths or the way of fine lies?"

Alas, if all humans were wise and had more good will the world would be a paradise now it is mostly a hell

Do not create children until one is ready to be a creator and to spawn creators. It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in...

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

No culture has yet solved the dilemma each has faced with the growth of a conscious mind: how to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in...

Decent folk had to let indecent folk do their thing; that was the paradox of decency.

Never will I sit motionless while directly or indirectly apology is made for the murder of the helpless. In securing any kind of peace, the first essential is to guarantee to every man the most...

Evans understood that if Nakamura chose, it would be indiscriminate and their number would include the sickest - and perhaps the sickest, because they were of least use to Nakamura - and that all of...

You can't regulate integrity

Do you know why most survivors of the Holocaust are vegan? It's because they know what it's like to be treated like an animal.

You throw a person in the river and then make a spectacle of jumping in to save them.

True, fascism was not to be tolerated by decent people. But neither was racism or colonialism or slave labor camps—one or another of which was a characteristic of all of the Allied powers.

"Then why do you want to know?" "Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do."

Good to evil seems evil

"The crimes of the Germans are really the most abominable ever to be recorded in the history of the so-called civilized nations," he wrote the physicist Otto Hahn. "The conduct of the German...

We will freedom for freedom's sake, in and through particular circumstances. And in thus willing freedom, we discover that it depends entirely upon the freedom of others and that the freedom of others...

Then the business game is to make profits out of others, and to prevent others from making profits out of you.

In our time mass or collective production has entered our economics, our politics, even our religion, so that some nations have substituted the idea collective for the idea God. This in my time is the...

Just because something was legal didn't automatically make it right.