“This is what evolution means--ordered progress; development from poorer to richer, from lower to higher, from less to greater--progress. In the material universe, progress to higher forms; in the moral universe, progress to higher life.” MeanFormUniverseMoralGreaterProgressMaterialsDevelopmentEvolutionHigher Book:The Life that Really is Source: The Life that Really is
“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
“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
