“good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws”
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“I regret exceedingly that the disputes between the protestants and Roman Catholics should be carried to the serious alarming height mentioned in your letters. Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause; and I was not without hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy of the present age would have put an effectual stop to contentions of this kind.
[Letter to Sir Edward Newenham, 22 June 1792]”
― Writings
[Letter to Sir Edward Newenham, 22 June 1792]”
― Writings
“In the New Testament, grace means God's love in action toward people who merited the opposite of love. Grace means God moving heaven and earth to save sinners who could not lift a finger to save themselves. Grace means God sending his only Son to the cross to descend into hell so that we guilty ones might be reconciled to God and received into heaven.”
― Knowing God
― Knowing God
“Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand.”
― A Grief Observed
― A Grief Observed
“Give me faith, Lord, to know Your Presence as surely as I know the beating of my own heart. I've felt so far from You....”
― In This Mountain
― In This Mountain
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