“Conscience is what? It is putting together a moral act and a moral ideal, and measuring the act by the ideal. It is putting this moral act which you do alongside the eternal laws of God, and seeing how it stands by those laws of God.” TogetherLawMoralSeeingEternalConscienceIdealsMeasuring Book:Problems of Life: Selections from the Writings of Rev. Lyman Abbott Source: Problems of Life: Selections from the Writings of Rev. Lyman Abbott
“We Gentiles owe our life to Israel. It is Israel who has brought us the message that God is one, and that God is a just and righteous God, and demands righteousness of his children, and demands nothing else. It is Israel who has brought us the message that God is our Father. It is Israel who, in bringing us the divine law, has laid the foundation of liberty.” PeopleWorldFirstsChildrenRememberLawFatherGivenLibertySawsOur LivesDivineDemandMessagesPrejudiceInstitutionsFoundationJewIsraelFlamesRighteousnessRighteousJudaismOur FatherGentilesDivine LawUnchristian Author:Lyman Abbott
“Every great sin ought to rouse a great anger. Mob law is better than no law at all. A community which rises in its wrath to punish with misdirected anger a great wrong is in a healthier moral condition than a community which looks upon its perpetration with apathy and unconcern.” LooksLawCommunitySinMoralConditionsOughtPunishmentLook UpApathyWrath Author:Lyman Abbott
