Quotes About Dilemma

God knows that I detest slavery, but it is an existing evil ... and we must endure it and give it such protection as is guaranteed by the Constitution.

The human dilemma is this: God is Holy and we are not. God is Righteous and we are not.

The ability to choose is at the essential core of our grandeur. Even evil exists because God respects our ability to choose.

If you could be either God's worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?

God save us from people who do the morally right thing. It's always the rest of us who get broken in half.

From the moment a creature becomes aware of God as God and of itself as self, the terrible alternative of choosing God or self for the centre is opened to it.

God didn't give Adam and Eve the right to decide what was good and evil. He gave them the right to choose between good and evil.

Oh my God, baby, you are in so much trouble.

As sure as God is good, so surely there is no such thing as necessary evil.

I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice

If it were conceivable that in obeying God one should bring about one's own damnation whilst in disobeying him one could be saved, I should still choose the way of obedience.

If God were to remove all evil from our world (but somehow leave human beings on the planet), it would mean that the essence of 'humanness' would be destroyed. We would become robots.

People ... have tried to evoke God or devil to justify them in what their glands insisted upon.

I ran into the preacher, said God was on my side, then I ran into the hangman.

Abraham is trying to obey God, but not to kill. I feel that moment is one of the defining moments of Jewish faith.

It used to be that god was revealed in the wonders of nature; now God was being challenged by those same wonders. Scholars were now required to choose one side or the other.

I would rather be a conscious wrongdoer than a mindless saint.

You can never reach to the truth if you don't even look for it, and the bigger dilemma with the truth is, that you don't have to go too far, but simply have to, turn your attention inward.

The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

The lesser of two evils, or the least of the worst, is not good enough for the American people anymore.

The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.

Terrible is the temptation to be good.

It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.

Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad things.