Religion And Politics

"The Protestants haven't the faintest conception of a church . . . You can do anything you like to them—they will submit. . . . They are insignificant little people, submissive as dogs, and they sweat with embarrassment when you talk to them. They have neither a religion that they can take seriously nor a great position to defend like Rome."

"The old beliefs will be brought back to honor again.... the whole secret knowledge of nature, of the divine, the demonic.... We will wash off the Christian veneer and bring out a religion peculiar to our race."

"As for Hitler, his professed religion unhesitatingly juxtaposed the God-Providence and Valhalla. Actually his god was a political argument and a manner of reaching an impressive climax at the end of his speeches."

"This much is true, that Nazism was not consciously based on Christianity. But it had some of its roots in Christianity. In Mein Kampf, Hitler praises Christian fanaticism as a model to be followed by the Nazis, particularly its thoroughness in eradicating paganism. The language he used in writing about races and nations was also very Biblical, far more than Darwinist. He had a Messiah complex and revelled in Richard Wagner’s messianic Parsifal myth. His followers saw him as a Messiah restoring the German Reich just as the Biblical Messiah was meant to restore King David’s kingdom. His attitude to martyrdom too, especially when the war was being lost, had a Christian element. Certain Christian thought forms persisted in Nazi doctrine even when it had rejected Christian belief at the conscious level, just as they persisted among many atheist socialists who secularised the Christian idea of saving the world and establishing the brotherhood of men. This way, Nazi anti-Semitism was doctrinally very distinct from Christian anti-Judaism yet undoubtedly tapped into the reservoir of lingering Christian anti-Jewish feelings. Hitler notoriously described his anti-Jewish policies as merely the completion of Jesus’ anti-Jewish struggle."

"He himself remained a member of the Catholic Church, although he had lost the inner connection with it. He was to remain one until his suicide."

"[Hitler in 1942 said] that he held the Church to be absolutely necessary in the life of the State."

"Were the talents and virtues which heaven has bestowed on men given merely to make them more obedient drudges, to be sacrificed to the follies and ambition of a few? Or, were not the noble gifts so equally dispensed with a divine purpose and law, that they should as nearly as possible be equally exerted, and the blessings of Providence be equally enjoyed by all?"

"Though the moral law has ceased as a covenant, it remains as a rule of life. It will forever continue as the standard of holiness."

"The law sends us to Christ to be justified, and Christ sends us to the law to be regulated."

"The law is what we must do; the gospel what God will give."

"The law discovers the disease. The gospel gives the remedy."

"The law showed what man ought to be. Christ showed what man is, and what God is."

"Law, meaning obedience to a holy God, passes by a natural transition into the gospel; that is, reverential duty to a person, to the obedience of love at last, which obeys, because the beau- tifulness of obedience is perceived."

"The law of God is not the conflict of will with will, but of wisdom with folly, knowledge with ignorance, right with wrong — the announcement out of parental love, of the conditions of spiritual life, happiness, immortality. The punishment of sin, therefore, may be contemplated, not as the overflowing of wrath, but the outworkings of natural law, coincident with the judgment of infinite righteousness."

"Of law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world: all tilings in heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempt from her power."

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"Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour. Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law."

"For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves."

"Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law."

"If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well: But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors. For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all."

"Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets."

"Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven."

"If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him? Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets."

"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law."

"But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night."

"Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he."

"Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son: but he that is a companion of riotous men shameth his father. He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor. He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be abomination."

"And what cause soever shall come to you of your brethren that dwell in your cities, between blood and blood, between law and commandment, statutes and judgments, ye shall even warn them that they trespass not against the LORD, and so wrath come upon you, and upon your brethren: this do, and ye shall not trespass."

"And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered."

"When they have a matter, they come unto me; and I judge between one and another, and I do make them know the statutes of God, and his laws."

"One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you."

"And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws."

"Just as it is forbidden to permit that which is prohibited, so it is forbidden to prohibit that which is permitted."

"Prophecy really includes ordinary knowledge; for the knowledge which we acquire by our natural faculties depends on knowledge of God and His eternal laws; but ordinary knowledge is common to all men as men, and rests on foundations which all share, whereas the multitude always strains after rarities and exceptions, and thinks little of the gifts of nature; so that, when prophecy is talked of, ordinary knowledge is not supposed to be included. Nevertheless it has as much right as any other to be called Divine, for God's nature, in so far as we share therein, and God's laws, dictate it to us; nor does it suffer from that to which we give the preeminence, except in so far as the latter transcends its limits and cannot be accounted for by natural laws taken in themselves."

"Therefore, prepare thy heart to receive and obey the instructions which I am about to give unto you; for all those who have this law revealed unto them must obey the same."

"As a general truth, communities prosper and flourish, or droop and decline, in just the degree that they practise or neglect to practise the primary duties of justice and humanity. The free-labor system conforms to the divine law of equality, which is written in the hearts and consciences of man, and therefore is always and everywhere beneficent."

"It is my interpretation from the Koran that all people have equal rights. That means men and women, Muslims and non-Muslims too, and in a society where all people have equal rights, that means all people should make decisions equally. … This doesn't mean that we're changing God's law, It just means we're reinterpreting laws according to the development of science - and the realities of the times."

"Knowing that all things contrary to God's laws are transient, let us avoid despair and radiate hope for a warless world."

"One sole God; One sole ruler,—his Law; One sole interpreter of that law—Humanity."

"God's service in this name is the service of God's house, and therefore they are convertible. And who sees not, that whosoever ministers to the poor, ministers to God ? As it appears in that solemn sentence of the last day, inasmuch as you did feed, clothe, lodge the poor, you did it unto me."

"The laws of the realm do admit nothing against the law of God."

"A woman cannot be a pastor by the law of God. I say more, it is against the law of the realm."

"Our humility is the unconditional submission before the divine laws of existence so far as they are known to us men."

"Be just,--not like man's law, which seizes on one isolated fact, but like God's judging angel, whose clear, sad eye saw all the countless cankering days of this man's life, all the countless nights, when, sick with starving, his soul fainted in him, before it judged him for this night, the saddest of all."

"The wildest scorner of his Maker's laws Finds in a sober moment time to pause,"

"A difficult form of virtue is to try in your own life to obey what you believe to be God's will. It is not easy to do, and if you do it, you make but little noise in the world. But it is easy to turn on some one who differs from you in opinion, and in the guise of zeal for God's honour, to attack a man whose life perhaps may be much more pleasing to God than is your own."

"But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later."

"And it came to pass that the prophets of the Lord did threaten the people of Nephi, according to the word of God, that if they did not keep the commandments, but should fall into transgression, they should be destroyed from off the face of the land. Wherefore, the prophets, and the priests, and the teachers, did labor diligently, exhorting with all long-suffering the people to diligence; teaching the law of Moses, and the intent for which it was given; persuading them to look forward unto the Messiah, and believe in him to come as though he already was. And after this manner did they teach them. And it came to pass that by so doing they kept them from being destroyed upon the face of the land; for they did prick their hearts with the word, continually stirring them up unto repentance."

"And inasmuch as ye shall keep my commandments, ye shall prosper, and shall be led to a land of promise; yea, even a land which I have prepared for you; yea, a land which is choice above all other lands."

"Alice: Arrest him! More: Why, what has he done? Margaret: He's bad! More: There is no law against that. Roper: There is! God's law! More: Then God can arrest him."