Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.
That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell.
God gave us faculties for our use each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to sleep but permit them to do their work until divinely called to something higher.
If there is no God everything is permitted.
God will not permit any troubles to come upon us unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.
The attack on ObamaCare was that Congress does not have the power under the Commerce Clause to force a private citizen into a private contractual relationship. If such a thing is permitted to stand the anti-ObamaCare forces argue there will be no limit to Congress's power in the future.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
The new freedom of expression brought by the Internet goes far beyond politics. People relate to each other in new ways posing questions about how we should respond to people when all that we know about them is what we have learned through a medium that permits all kinds of anonymity and deception.
Will dissent be permitted? The answer to that question will determine whether the society is a free society or a fear society.
People may believe that there can be a society where dissent is not permitted but which is nonetheless not a fear society because everyone agrees with one another and therefore no one wants to dissent.
There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
I wasn't with Joseph but I believe him. My faith did not come to me through science and I will not permit so-called science to destroy it.
Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.
Never permit failure to become a habit.
All provisions of federal state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield.
Personally I would be delighted if there were a life after death especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.