I like his holiness very much, particularly since an order, which I understand he has lately given, that no more miracles shall be... performed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... so large a portion of those who hold much capital, instead of using their various advantages for the greatest good of those ar...ound them, employ the chief of them for mere selfish indulgences; thus inflicting as much mischief on themselves, as results to others from their culpable neglect. A great portion of the rich seem to be acting on the principle, that the more God bestows on them, the less are they under obligation to practise any self-denial, in fulfilling his benevolent plan of raising our race to intelligence and holiness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When the righteous man turneth away from his righteousness that he hath committed and doeth that which is neither lawful nor quite... right, he will generally be found to have gained in amiability what he has lost in holiness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Catholics think of grace as a supernatural power which God dispenses, primarily through the Church and its sacraments, to purify t...he souls of naturally sinful human beings, and render them capable of holiness.... Protestants think of grace as an attribute of God rather than a gift from God. It is a shorthand term signifying God's determination to love, forgive, and save His human children, however little they deserve it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nietzsche, to the end of his days, remained a Russian pastor's son, and hence two-thirds of a Puritan; he erected his war upon hol...iness, toward the end, into a sort of holy war.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...he sent letters to all the royal provinces, to every province in its own script and to every people in its own language, declar...ing that every man should be master in his own house.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »