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“God, in His wrath, has not left this world to the mercy of the subtlest dialectician; and all arguments are happily transitory in their effect when they contradict the primal intuitions of conscience and the inborn sentiments of the heart.”

World Heart Left Effects This World Conscience Argument Mercy Intuition Sentiments Wrath Primal Transitory

Author:Edwin Percy Whipple

“The world was created because God willed it, but why did He will it? Judaism has maintained, in all of its versions, that this world is the arena that God created for man, half beast and half angel; to prove that he could be a moral being...man was given dominion over nature, but he was commanded to behave towards the rest of creation with justice and compassion. Man lives, always, in tension between his power and the limits set by his conscience.”

Men World Given Justice Half Compassion Moral Creation This World Prove Limits Conscience Angel Environmental Gods Will Versions Behave Beast Tension Judaism Arena Stewardship Dominion

Author:Arthur Hertzberg

“What does a man seek in this world? A position, or a throne? Man seeks peace of mind and the fear of Almighty God. As long as one knows that there is ajudgement day, he tries to keep his conscience clear and do what he can.”

Knows Men World Trying Mind Long Doe Clear Position This World Conscience Peace Of Mind Almighty Thrones Almighty God Judgement Day

Author:King Hussein I

“Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it's to have any meaning in this world - and stop being its apologist.”

Ifs World Doe Church This World Brother Conscience Distance Unity Consumerism Free Market Overconsumption Your Brother Being Free

Author:Bono

“The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me. And even though I have to face the prospect of being a minority of one, I humbly believe I have the courage to be in such a hopeless minority.”

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Book:All Men Are Brothers

Source: All Men Are Brothers

“In all their jollity in this world, the wicked are but as a book fairly bound, which when it is opened is full of nothing but tragedies. So when the book of their consciences shall be once opened, there is nothing to be read but lamentations and woes.”

World Book Christianity This World Conscience Tragedy Bounds Wicked Woe Lamentation

Book:Complete Works of Richard Sibbes: (7 Volume Set)

Source: Complete Works of Richard Sibbes: (7 Volume Set)

“We should listen to the voice of conscience. It does not take nearly as much courage as one might think to admit to our mistakes and learn from them. Human beings are in this world to learn and to change themselves in learning.”

Thinking World Should Humans Doe Might Voice Human Beings Mistake This World Conscience

Book:Until the Final Hour: Hitler's Last Secretary

Source: Until the Final Hour: Hitler's Last Secretary

“If the gospel was of a nature to be propagated or maintained by the power of the world, God would not have intrusted it to fishermen. To defend the gospel appertains not to the princes and pontiffs of this world.”

Ifs World This World Conscience Fisherman

Author:Martin Luther