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“I may be deemed superstitious, and even egotistical, in regarding this event as a special interposition of divine Providence in my favor. But I…

— Frederick Douglass

“Yea ! by your works are ye justified--toil unrelieved ; Manifold labours, co-ordinate each to the sending achieved ; Discipline, not of the feet…

— Gilbert Frankau

“The weapons of our warfare, and which alone are powerful to break down the strongholds of error, are not carnal, but spiritual. They are…

— John Newton

“But herein also lies an irony, for there is more than one kind of power and one kind of authority. The power of the…

— Thomas Talbott

“And that in this backsliding day, we might not spend our breath in fruitless complaints of the evils of others; but may everyone begin…

— Various

“Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power. Consequently…

— Bertrand Russell

“we are directed not merely to abstain from evil actions, but even from evil thoughts, and from idle words, and empty talk, and scurrilous…

— The Church Fathers

“Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents’, on April 23, 1770: ‘When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall,…

— 97 Edmund Burke

“The willingness to undertake such action cannot be based on certainties, but on those possibilities glimpsed in a reading of history different from the…

— Howard Zinn

“With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive…

— Abraham Lincoln

“We are accordingly urged by our own evil things to consider the good things of God; and, indeed, we cannot aspire to Him in…

— John Calvin

“Let him consider how all want of love, all indifference to the needs, the feelings, the weakness of others; all sharp and hasty judgments…

— Andrew Murray