True law is right reason in agreement with nature; it is of universal application, unchanging and everlasting; it summons to duty by its commands, and averts from wrong-doing by its prohibitions. And it does not lay its commands or prohibitions upon good men in vain, though neither have any effect on the wicked. It is a sin to try to to sic alter this law, nor is it allowable to attempt to repeal any part of it, and it is impossible to abolish it entirely. We cannot be freed from its obligations by senate or people, and we need not look outside ourselves for an expounder or interpreter of it. And there will not be different laws at Rome and at Athens, or different laws now and in the future, but one eternal and unchangeable law will be valid for all nations and all times, and there will be one master and ruler, that is, God, over us all, for he is the author of this law, its promulgator, and its enforcing judge. Whoever is disobedient is fleeing from himself and denying his human nature, and by reason of this very fact he will suffer the worst penalties, even if he escapes what is commonly considered punishment.
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The very fact of its finding itself in agreement with other minds perturbs it, so that it hunts for points of divergence, feeling the urgent need to make it clear that at least it reached the same conclusions by a different route.
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There's nothing in this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans.
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There's nothing is this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans.
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1 John 5:14:
This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.
(NIV)
And this is the confidence (the assurance, the privilege of boldness) which we have in Him: [we are sure] that if we ask anything (make any request) according to His will (in agreement with His own plan), He listens to and hears us.
(AMP)
And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:
(KJV)
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1 John 5:8:
The Spirit, the water and the blood; and the three are in agreement.
(NIV)
And there are three witnesses on the earth: the Spirit, the water, and the blood; and these three agree [are in unison; their testimony coincides].
(AMP)
And there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.
(KJV)
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Ephesians 1:11:
In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will
(NIV)
In Him we also were made [God's] heritage (portion) and we obtained an inheritance; for we had been foreordained (chosen and appointed beforehand) in accordance with His purpose, Who works out everything in agreement with the counsel and design of His [own] will
(AMP)
In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:
(KJV)
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'I am fully in agreement with the bills against vivisection, for the abolition of vivisection can only be seen as an advance in public education'
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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.
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