Today, America is confronting another disaster that has caused destruction and loss of life, ... This time the devastation resulted not from the malice of evil men, but from the fury of water and wind.
Today, America is confronting another disaster that has caused destruction and loss of life, ... This time the devastation resulted not from the malice of evil men, but from the fury of water and wind.
The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed.
It's a striking contrast with the negative portrayal of Judas as the quintessential traitor. The figure of Judas is often portrayed as the evil Jewish person who turned Jesus in to be killed.
It's a positive move that shows the company is no longer an old-style family-run business. Dilution of the stock is a necessary evil. It's better than going belly-up.
For every thousand hacking at the leaves of evil, there is one striking at the root.
People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows when it is no longer able to do -- after forty. Between twenty and forty the will of the child to do gets stronger, more dangerous, but it has not begun to learn to know yet. Since his capacity to do is forced into channels of evil through environment and pressures, man is strong before he is moral. The world's anguish is caused by people between twenty and forty.
I feel grateful and happy this morning for so many evidences of the goodness of the Lord that I wish I could strike a note of optimism that would reverberate to the uttermost parts of the Church. In the words of Frank L. Stanton 'This world o' God's is brighter Than we ever dream or know Its burdens growin' lighter An' it's Love that makes 'em so An' I'm thankful that I'm livin' Where Love's blessedness I see, 'Neath a Heaven that's forgivin' Where the bells ring 'Home' to me'
If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
Black people are inferior to Caucasians. Blacks constitute a totally distinct group; they overshadow the country with the germ... of evil.
It is our obligation to free them from the clutches of evil, evil that has no boundaries,
Accept, accept that I have won, whispers the Devil. You can see for yourself that life is unjust, unfair, that suffering is ordinary. Who is stronger I am, of course. Just despair, my dear, despair. Only tell me that I am strong, that Evil rules.
He fashions evil for himself who does evil to another, and an evil plan does mischief to the planner.
To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.
The human spirit will not even begin to try to surrender self-will as long as all seems to be well with it. Now error and sin both have this property, that the deeper they are the less their victim suspects their existence they are masked evil. Pain is unmasked, unmistakable evil every man knows that something is wrong when he is being hurt.
Had it not been for God's glory and this man's goodness, ... I would not be here.
And thank goodness. He's vastly underrated as a runner and a receiver. He really helps them big-time.
In the past goodness was always a collective experience. Then goodness became privatised.
There lives within the very flame of love
A kind of wick or snuff that will abate it;
And nothing is at a like goodness still;
For goodness, growing to a plurisy,
Dies in his own too-much.
The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
Xbox owners can get a fresh dose of Hell with DOOM 3 Resurrection of Evil. We're turning up the heat by arming you with incredible new weapons and powers for an all-out battle with the Hunters -- a new breed of demons Hell-bent on killing you.
The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive.
He is not doing this out of the goodness of his heart. There is much more behind this than he is willing to say.
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
The Soviet Union is an Evil Empire, and Soviet communism is the focus of evil in the modern world
Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
On September 11, great sorrow came to our country, ... And from that sorrow has come great resolve. We have awakened to the evil of terrorism, and we are determined to destroy it. We will continue until justice is delivered.
The person who in shaky times also wavers only increases the evil, but the person of firm decision fashions the universe.
The face of evil is always the face of total need.
We're hearing from a lot of value-oriented managers that they're taking this opportunity to move into stocks with growth prospects. My goodness, Cisco is in the portfolio right now, which isn't something that Windsor shareholders might be expecting.
Goodness is the only investment which never fails.
There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.
If the guilt of sin is so great that nothing can satisfy it but the blood of Jesus; and the filth of sin is so great that nothing can fetch out the stain thereof but the blood of Jesus, how great, how heinous, how sinful must the evil of sin be.
Enjoying things which are pleasant that is not the evil it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is
This part of Brazil offered the curious spectacle of a great evil, which has been long suffered to exist and is now advancing, gradually yet surely, to that state which must entail inevitable destruction on the existing Government of the country.
Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me, like Alcestis, from the grave, Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave, Rescued from death by force, though pale and faint. Mine, as whom washed from spot of child-bed taint Purification in the Old Law did save, And such, as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in Heav'n without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind Her face was veiled, yet to my fancied sight Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shined So clear, as in no face with more delight. But O, as to embrace me she inclined, I waked, she fled, and day brought back my night.
Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.
She was beginning to understand that evil is not absolute, and that good is often an occasion more than a condition.
What a devil art thou, Poverty How many desires - how many aspirations after goodness and truth - how many noble thoughts, loving wishes toward our fellows, beautiful imaginings thou hast crushed under thy heel, without remorse or pause
Since Pink Floyd's The Wall, this has never been done. A third of the movie is CGI, a third of the movie is a documentary and a third of it is a love story. And it basically tells the story of the breakup of one of the biggest bands in the world and the creation of the world's greatest rock band, ... It's a documentary about the past year of my life. But the whole thing is done with metaphors and analogies of World War II. Because World War II was good versus evil, the grand sense of purpose, and seeing as though I started this new part of my life specifically for my family, I felt that it would be an appropriate reference point rather than using modern images.
A benevolent mind, and the face assumes the patterns of benevolence. An evil mind, then an evil face.
For us, with the rule of right and wrong given us by Christ, there is nothing for which we have no standard. And there is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.
Every man, however obscure, however far removed from the general recognition, is one of a group of men impressible for good, and impressible for evil, and it is in the nature of things that he cannot really improve himself without in some degree improving other men.
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.
Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
Acting in evil and corruption, people are immersed in corruption. Without the Name, they find no place of rest. In the City of Death, they suffer in agony.
Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.
It is an evil cause in so far as, despite the loyalty that it arouses in me, it is destructive of loyalty in the world of my fellows.
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