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He should first show them in deeds rather than words all that is good and holy.
Dread | Evil | Good | Punishment |
John Chrysostom, fully Saint John Chrysostom
You are a man, and yet you spit the venom of a poisonous serpent. You are a man and yet you become like a raging beast. You have been given a mouth not to wound but to heal.
Evil | Guarantee | Punishment | World |
The believer and the philosopher consider creatures differently. The philosopher considers what belongs to their proper natures, while the believer considers only what is true of creatures insofar as they are related to God, for example, that they are created by God and are subject to him, and the like.
God | Grace | Punishment | God |
Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.
Good | Harm | Man | Order | Perfection | Punishment | Reason | Soul | Will |
Samuel Johnson, aka Doctor Johnson
I am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.
Contempt | Punishment |
Samuel Johnson, aka Doctor Johnson
If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?
Crime | Humanity | Man | Punishment |
Samuel Johnson, aka Doctor Johnson
The present is never a happy state to any human being.
Power | Punishment |
At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience of crimes committed, suffered, and witnessed, that good and not evil will be done to him. It is this above all that is sacred in every human being.
Fear | Kill | Men | Punishment |
The needs of a human being are sacred. Their satisfaction cannot be subordinated either to reasons of state, or to any consideration of money, nationality, race, or colour, or to the moral or other value attributed to the human being in question, or to any consideration whatsoever. There is no legitimate limit to the satisfaction of the needs of a human being except as imposed by necessity and by the needs of other human beings. The limit is only legitimate if the needs of all human beings receive an equal degree of attention.
Method | Need | Punishment |
Capitalism has brought about the emancipation of collective humanity with respect to nature. But this collective humanity has itself taken on with respect to the individual the oppressive function formerly exercised by nature.
Eternal | Hunger | Law | Man | Punishment | Respect | Suffering | Respect |
Benedict of Nursia, aka Saint Benedict of Nursia NULL
He should first show them in deeds rather than words all that is good and holy.
Dread | Evil | Good | Punishment |
If self-denial be the greatest part of godliness, the great letter in the alphabet of religion, self-love is the great letter in the alphabet of practical atheism. Self is the great antichrist and anti-God in the world, that sets up itself above all that is called God; self-love is the captain of that black band: it sits in the temple of God, and would be adored as God. Self-love begins; but denying the power of godliness, which is the same with denying the ruling power of God, ends the list.
Beginning | Dishonor | Duty | Enemy | Friend | God | Justice | News | Object | Perfection | Punishment | Sin | Wickedness | Will | God |
God doth not govern the world only by his will as an absolute monarch, but by his wisdom and goodness as a tender father. It is not his greatest pleasure to show his sovereign power, or his inconceivable wisdom, but his immense goodness, to which he makes the other attributes subservient.
Awe | Fear | God | Law | Men | Past | Pleasure | Punishment | Reason | Soul | Strength | Writing | God |
Man, the noblest creature upon earth, hath a beginning. No man in the world but was some years ago no man. If every man we see had a beginning, then the first man also had a beginning, then the world had a beginning: for the earth, which was made for the use of man, had wanted that end for which it was made. We must pitch upon some one man that was unborn; that first man must either be eternal; that cannot be, for he that hath no beginning hath no end; or must spring out of the earth as plants and trees do; that cannot be: why should not the earth produce men to this day, as it doth plants and trees? He was therefore made; and whatsoever is made hath some cause that made it, which is God.
Action | Comfort | Conscience | Evil | Fear | God | Good | Hope | Man | Need | Power | Punishment | Reward | Sense | God |
I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on, projecting trait and trace through time to times anon, and leaping from place to place over oblivion.
I do believe that General Washington had not a firm confidence in the durability of our government. He was naturally distrustful of men, and inclined to gloomy apprehensions; and I was ever persuaded that a belief that we must at length end in something like a British constitution, had some weight in his adoption of the ceremonies of levees, birthdays, pompous meetings with Congress, and other forms of the same character, calculated to prepare us gradually for a change which he believed possible, and to let it come on with as little shock as might be to the public mind.
Absolute | Law | Punishment | Worship |