“Bad laws make hard cases.”

“If the Divine call does not make us better, it will make us very much worse. Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst.”

“There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. It tells you to do the straight thing and it does not seem to care how painful, or dangerous, or difficult it is to do.”

“Everything is as good or bad as our opinion makes it. ”

“Strictly speaking, there are no such things as good and bad impulses. Think...of a piano. It has not got two kinds of notes on it, the 'right' notes and the 'wrong' ones. Every single note is right at one time and wrong at another. The Moral Law is not any one instinct or set of instincts: it is something which makes a kind of tune (the tune we call goodness or right conduct) by directing the instincts.”

“But the same badness which makes us need it, makes us unable to do it [repent]. Can we do it if God helps us? Yes.”

“we know that men find themselves under a moral law, which they did not make, and cannot quite forget even when they try, and which they know they ought to obey.”