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“Always do good when you're tempted to do evil. The reward in doing good is priceless.”
“You are good in countless ways, and you are not evil when you are not good, you are only loitering and sluggard.”
“Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration tomoral rectitude have the slightest notion of what is actually writtenin it?”
“If I could, Sister James, I would certainly choose to live in innocence. But innocence can only be wisdom in a world without evil. Situations arise and we are confronted with wrongdoing and the nee...”
“When men follow justice the city blooms, the earth bears rich harvests, and children and flocks increase; but for the unjust all nature is hostile, the people waste away from famine, and a whole ci...”
“Boy, you're good at figuring things out. Isn't he? Except that if anybody's the devil in this room it's _you_, buster." An extraordinary bitterness came into his face. "I've seen you before. I know...”
“Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.”
“There is no doubt that healthy-mindedness is inadequate as a philosophical doctrine, because the evil facts which it positively refuses to account for are a genuine portion of reality; and they may...”
“In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.”
“Shall that be shut to man, which to the beast Is open? or will God incense his ire For such a petty trespass? and not praise Rather your dauntless virtue, whom the pain Of death denounced, whatever...”
“I'm evil, know it, and enjoy it.”
“Good is not the opposite of evil, joy is the opposite of evil.”
“It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.”
“After all, evil was a kind of poison, an infection of the soul.”
“That faceless, nameless and ruthless demon you pretend to fight, is nothing but the bastard in your head.”
“My job was to fight evil, and my soul was my weapon.”
“There is a darkness in you. In all of us, probably. Beasts we keep chained. Ordinary men have to keep the chains strong, for if we let the beast loose then society will turn upon us with fiery veng...”
“What is truth" I was asked. "Truth is neither good nor bad. Neither evil nor pure. It just is." That's what I told her. Because through our convictions of good and bad, of evil and pure, we taint t...”
“Once evil is individualized, becoming part of everyday life, the way of resisting it also becomes individual. How does the soul survive? is the essential question. And the response is: through love...”
“The difficulties of life do not have to be unbearable. It is the way we look at them - through faith or unbelief - that makes them seem so. We must be convinced that our Father is full of love for ...”
