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A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.
The pay of many of our top executives in big hundred companies in the U.K. is outrageous and even obscene.
People have described me as a management bishop but I say to my critics, Jesus was a management expert too.
Piety and virtue are not only delightful for the present, but they leave peace and contentment behind them.
How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.
Surely modesty never hurt any cause; and the confidence of man seems to me to be much like the wrath of man.
We have no cause to be ashamed of the Gospel of Christ; but the Gospel of Christ may justly be ashamed of us.
If God were not a necessary Being of Himself, He might almost seem to be made for the use and benefit of men.
We have lobbed verses of Scripture, like hand grenades, into the camps of others, convinced we only have truth.
Take away God and religion, and men live to no purpose, without proposing any worthy end of life to themselves.
The true ground of most men's prejudice against the Christian doctrine is because they have no mind to obey it.
A lot of people reject the idea of God as Father if theyve had a competitive relationship with their own father.
Is not he imprudent, who, seeing the tide making haste towards him apace, will sleep till the sea overwhelms him?
A lot of people reject the idea of God as Father if they've had a competitive relationship with their own father.
Without centuries of Christian antisemitism, Hitlers passionate hatred would never have been so fervently echoed.
Without centuries of Christian antisemitism, Hitler's passionate hatred would never have been so fervently echoed.
Who knows whether in retirement I shall be tempted to the last infirmity of mundane minds, which is to write a book.
Those who dare to interpret God's will must never claim Him as an asset for one nation or group rather than another.
Fear is that passion which hath the greatest power over us, and by which God and His laws take the surest hold of us.
Are we proud and passionate, malicious and revengeful? Is this to be like-minded with Christ, who was meek and lowly?
The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent.
None so nearly disposed to scoffing at religion as those who have accustomed themselves to swear on trifling occasions.
They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.
Of some calamity we can have no relief but from God alone; and what would men do, in such a case if it were not for God?
We anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the heart and sweetness of worldly pleasures by delightful forethought of them.
We've got to find ways of confronting the issues that divide - and at the heart of cultural issues, you often find religions.
Next to the wicked lives of men, nothing is so great a disparagement and weakening to religion as the divisions of Christians.
There is one way whereby we may secure our riches, and make sure friends to ourselves of them,--by laying them out in charity.
Jesus calls us to a holiness that is positive, generous and openhearted. It's a difficult, daring challenge - do we accept it?
A little wit and a great deal of ill-nature will furnish a man for satire; but the greatest instance of wit is to commend well.
Human fallibility recognised, Gods sovereignty trusted; these are also the only stable foundations for human beings in society.
Human fallibility recognised, God's sovereignty trusted; these are also the only stable foundations for human beings in society.
Let us live like those who expect to die, and then we shall find that we feared death only because we were unacquainted with it.
My ignorance of science is such that if anyone mentioned copper nitrate I should think he was talking about policemen's overtime.
There's something different about looking someone in the eyes and doing something dishonest to doing it over the phone or screen.
That faith which is required of us is then perfect when it produces in us a fiduciary assent to whatever the Gospel has revealed.
There is no readier way for a man to bring his own worth into question than by endeavoring to detract from the worth of other men.
The little and short sayings of nice And excellent men are of great value, like the dust of gold, or the least sparks of diamonds.
I often think the doctrine of fasting in Lent and having meatless days as old-fashioned...it might be better to give up television.
In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.
I think what has happened, actually, is that September 11 has given a spur, a renewed urgency, to dialogue between the great faiths.
The gospel chargeth us with piety towards God, and justice and charity to men, and temperance and chastity in reference to ourselves.
Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.
And as for Pleasure, there is little in this World that is true and sincere, besides the Pleasure of doing our Duty, and of doing good.
If people would but provide for eternity with the same solicitude and real care as they do for this life, they could not fail of heaven.
Currently, we're finding that about 75 percent of potential jurors have anger or deep-seated hatred toward anyone associated with Enron.
Who can think without horror of what another widespread war would mean, waged as it would be with all the new weapons of mass destruction.
I dont believe in good human beings, but I believe you can have structures that make it easier to make the right choice or the wrong choice.
Virtue and vice are not arbitrary things; but there is a natural and eternal reason for goodness and virtue, and against vice and wickedness.
I don't believe in good human beings, but I believe you can have structures that make it easier to make the right choice or the wrong choice.