In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect, that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

Society is impossible without inequality, inequality intolerable without a code of morality, and a code of morality unacceptable without religion.

Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports.

Did you ever say yes to a pleasure? Oh my friends, then you also said yes to all pain. all things are linked, entwined, in love with one another.

But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected that he who wants the greatest possible amount of the one must also have the greatest possible amount of the other, that he who wants to experience the "heavenly high jubilation," must also be ready to be "sorrowful unto death"?