RichardKennaway comments on Rationality Quotes August 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: metastable 20 August 2013 08:34:07PM 6 points [-]

But Naaman was wroth, and went away...And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?

2 Kings 5: 11-13

Comment author: RichardKennaway 20 August 2013 10:27:50PM 1 point [-]

Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

Micah 6: 7-8

Comment author: gwern 01 September 2013 11:03:04PM 2 points [-]

"Not to commit evils,
But to practice all good,
And to keep the heart pure -
This is the teaching of the Buddhas."

--multiple sutras

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