“Faith as well as science endowed the visible world with properties that eliminated blind, incalculable chance as the author of all events. The war of good and evil present in all religions does not always end, in every faith, with the victory of good, but in every one it establishes a clear order of existence. The sacred as well as the profane rests on that universal order…”
One Human Minute (1986)
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“Every child of God defeats this evil world, and we achieve this victory through our faith.”
1 John 5:4 NLT
First Letter of John
Source: "The Masters of Suspicion", p. 85

The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.”
Source: The Story of Civilization

Earle, on John Stuart Mill, speaking of the socialistic doctrines. From Hearing Before the Committee on Interstate Commerce: United States Senate Sixty-second Congress pursuant to S. Res. 98 &c. (6 December 1911:793)

“One has to do good in order for it to exist in the world.”
Man muss das Gute tun, damit es in der Welt sei.
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 24.