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We are all born Auschwitz enabled.
- Clay Jones (PhD)
Con: I'm A Good Person
Brief Overview - I’m A Good Person: If God indeed exists, and I’m truly a good person, why shouldn’t I qualify to pass thru those pearly gates on my way into heaven? Explore here why our efforts to be a “good person” may not be adequate to fulfill God’s intended purpose for our life within the Christian story. To discover why our definition of “good” may not just be good enough, - Click - on buttons below (Complete Overview or "Display by Category/All" or Author Name)
I'm A Good Person - Quotes
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If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Nobel Prize) -
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Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs.
- John Dos Passos -
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For science, the end of the evolution struggle is simply represented by 'survival.' As for the means to that end, apparently anything goes. Darwinism leaves humanity without a moral compass.
- Bruce Lipton (PhD) -
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To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better.
- Claudius -
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There are many who are not guilty of doing anything wrong but very guilty of sins of omission - the things they neglect to do - the good things
- Mother Angelica -
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A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
- John Stuart Mill -
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Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
- Blaise Pascal -
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Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
- Calvin Coolidge -
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The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
- Martin Luther King (Nobel Prize, PhD) -
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke -
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Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.
- Emanuel Kant -
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God help the beast in me.
- Johnny Cash -
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The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
- Oscar Wild -
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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
- Charles Darwin -
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Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.
- St. Thomas Aquinas -
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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
- George Orwell -
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It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
- Benjamin Franklin -
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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.
- Augustine of Hippo -
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The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.
- Plutarch -
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. . . the Bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin, but the Bible also teaches that pride is a sin, jealousy is a sin, and hate is a sin, evil thoughts are a sin.
- Billy Graham -
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Help me Jesus, I know what I am.
- Johnny Cash -
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Nothing that we despise in other men is inherently absent from ourselves.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer -
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Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.
- Voltaire -
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Evil is unspectacular and always human and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
- W. H. Auden -
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The battle line between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Nobel Prize) -
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Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.
- Aesop -
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Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer -
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We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
- Mother Teresa (Nobel Prize) -
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I've learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell.
- Johnny Cash -
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
- Augustine of Hippo -
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If you believe you are truly a good person, you are either; 1.) A hypocrite, or 2.) Never studied the concept of sins of omission.
- Chris D. Cisions
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