The most powerful moral influence is example.
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In order to live man must believe in that for which he lives.
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In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.
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Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.
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It's often difficult for us to act compassionately, but sacred art eases the difficulty by ennobling us.
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Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them.
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So always, if we look back, concern for face-to-face morality, and its modern emphasis on justice as well, have historically evolved as religious issues.
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The modern period adds social ethics to religions agenda, for we now realize that social structures are not like laws of nature. They are human creations, so we are responsible for them.
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The crisis that the world finds itself in as it swings on the hinge of a new millennium is located in something deeper than particular ways of organizing political systems and economies.
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First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.
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