We shall never be abandoned by Heaven while we act worthy of its aid and protection
Samuel AdamsRead
We have this day restored the Sovereign to Whom all men ought to be obedient. He reigns in heaven and from the rising to the setting of the sun, let His kingdom come.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the belief in divine authority and the importance of obedience to a higher power.
Samuel Adams articulates the profound idea of recognizing and restoring sovereignty to a divine authority, which he asserts all individuals should recognize and submit to. This reflects a deep-rooted belief in the governance of a higher moral or spiritual law, urging people to acknowledge the reign of this sovereign from the heavens, suggesting that such recognition can lead to a more harmonious existence both spiritually and socially.
In practice
In a sermon discussing the importance of faith and obedience in difficult times.
We shall never be abandoned by Heaven while we act worthy of its aid and protection
Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptionable characters.
If taxes are laid upon us in any shape without our having a legal representation where they are laid, are we not reduced from the character of free subjects to the miserable state of tributary slaves? We claim British rights not by charter only! We are born to them.
Let no man thirst for good beer.
He therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who, so far as his power and influence extend, will not suffer a man to be chosen into any office of power and trust who is not a wise and virtuous man.
We boast of our freedom, and we have your example for it. We talk the language we have always heard you speak.
If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!
It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.
Conventionality is not morality.
When all the faces have been rejected and emptiness is left, you have found the original face. Emptiness is the original face. Zero is the ultimate experience. Nothingness - or more accurately NO-THINGNESS - is your original face.
Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind, by that sin against solitude.
I've come to the conclusion that mythology is really a form of archaeological psychology. Mythology gives you a sense of what a people believes, what they fear.
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