Am I God, to kill and to make alive?
He will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.
How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how shall I defy, whom the Lord hath not defied?
Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
The character of a people may be ruined by charity.