Quotes About Good

Good and evil, those are concepts man has made. And man is better, really, than the Savage Garden.

And there persisted in her a sense of Michael's dangerous innocence, his naivete, which seemed to her to be connected to his attitudes about evil. He understood good better than he did evil.

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Consequently,if you believe God made Satan, you must realize that all Satan's power comes from God and so that Satan is simply God's child, & that we are God's children also. There are no children of Satan ,really.

That is one of the worst aspects of evil, that it always involves the death of possible good, always proceeds from the destruction of something that might have been so much better.

I believe in Free Will, the Force Almighty by which we conduct ourselves as if we were the sons and daughters of a just and wise God, even if there is no such Supreme Being. And by free will, we can choose to do good on this earth, no

Love her sins, follow the path with her, make her evil your evil and you will do no evil.

Sometimes I think the theologians have got it backwards. The big problem is not How to explain the existence of evil in this world. It's How to explain the existence of good.

The cunning woman of the village becomes a witch only when her powers to heal do not work. Before that, she is everyone's good sorceress, and there is nary the slightest talk of devils.

As we were discussing last night, he said, evil is a matter of context. That is unavoidable. I am no relativist. I believe in the objective and true existence of good and of evil. But context is inevitable when a fallible human being speaks of evil. This we must all accept.

Do I make you nervous, Madame Lambert?" "No. I just prefer to keep my distance." "Evil isn't contagious." "I thought you said you weren't the most evil man in the world?" "I'm not. But that doesn't mean I'm a good man." "I don't think anyone would argue with that.

would want to make a pilgrimage to the place where her mother had spent her final, peaceful days, to the spot where she was buried. She could see the good that Stella's money was doing, make peace with what the courts

She wasn't always angry. She had lots of good days.

Who would have thought," the witch had asked, "that a good little girl like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness?

There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by. A life of good days lived in the senses is not enough. The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less; time is ample and its passage sweet. Who would call a day spent reading a good day? But a life spent reading—that is a good life.

Who would call a day spent reading a good day? But a life spent reading--that is a good life. A day that closely resembles every other day of the past ten or twenty years does not suggest itself as a good one. But who would not call Pasteur's life a good one, or Thomas Mann's?

When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil.

Humanity is central, Laurent, the only thing that matters. We are what puts good and evil in this universe. Not gods or dead people. Not machines. Us.

Everything bad gets shot at in America, says John Cole, and everything good too.

The beauty and the tragedy of the modern world is that it eliminates many situations that require people to demonstrate a commitment to the collective good.

Civilians balk at recognizing that one of the most traumatic things about combat is having to give it up. War is so obviously evil and wrong that the idea there could be anything good to it almost feels like a profanity.

social bonds were reinforced during disasters, and that people overwhelmingly devoted their energies toward the good of the community rather than just themselves.

Sometimes, we can't trust our own vision. We have to see the good another sees in us.

Yet intact Ahab, back from his first voyage, once said of just such a changeable breeze, This contrast is the way of life itself. All playfully, he added, But were I God, then would every day be invariantly good. Then he asked me if he might be the god of my world.