By this faith instilled from childhood and afterward confir… - Emmanuel Swedenborg

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By this faith instilled from childhood and afterward confirmed by preachings, it has come to pass that no one shuns evils from religion, but only from civil and moral law; thus not because they are sins but because they are damaging.

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Emanuel Swedenborg (29 January 1688 – 29 March 1772) was a Swedish philosopher, mystic, and scientist.

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