“Revelation is a warning, not a mandate.”

“Keeping demons from this world is your mandate, a mandate from heaven. And a mandate from heaven isn't something you can just ignore.”

“Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.”

“Inevitable is not the same as immediate, Sieh--and love does not mandate forgiveness.”

“Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with it ought not to meddle, it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself.”

“You are created with a mandate! You have all you need to fulfill it.”