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“Ah, my brother, it is a far harder thing, and it is afar higher proof of a thorough-going, persistent, Christian principle woven into the very texture of my soul, to go on plodding and patient, never taken by surprise by any small temptation, than to gather into myself the strength which God has given me, and, expecting some great storm to come down upon me, to stand fast, and let it rage. It is a great deal easier to die once for Christ than to live always for Him.”

“Some women are to be captured by storm and some taken by siege; yet if there be not a traitor in her heart that shall deliver up the garrison, thou shalt not prevail over her.”

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Author:Gelett Burgess

“Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. Substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom.”

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Book:Cardozo on the Law: Including the Nature of the Judicial Process, The Growth of the Law, The Paradoxes of Legal Science, Law and Literature

Source: Cardozo on the Law: Including the Nature of the Judicial Process, The Growth of the Law, The Paradoxes of Legal Science, Law and Literature

“[In-group exclusivism has] killed more human beings and destroyed more cities and villages than all the epidemics, hurricanes, storms, floods, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions taken together. It has brought upon mankind more suffering than any other catastrophe.”

Humans Together Suffering Human Beings Cities Taken Groups Mankind Storm Destroyed Village Flood Catastrophe Hurricanes Earthquakes Epidemics Eruption Volcanic Eruptions

Book:The Ways and Power of Love: Types, Factors, and Techniques of Moral Transformation

Source: The Ways and Power of Love: Types, Factors, and Techniques of Moral Transformation

“From wherever the emissions come, they have the same effect: They trap much more heat from the sun, melt the ice, raise the sea level, cause stronger storms, floods, drought, bigger fires, generate millions of climate refugees, destabilize political systems, threaten the growing of food crops and cause a number of other catastrophic consequences which, taken together, threaten the basis for the future of human civilization on the Earth.”