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Truly embodying goodness necessitates proactive efforts toward promoting kindness, justice, compassion, and integrity. Therefore, individuals should strive to engage in benevolent actions and uphold ethical values, rather than solely focusing on denouncing evil, in order to truly exemplify goodness.
- Cabell Harris
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for.
“Being against evil doesn't make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself. I could feel it coming just like a tide... I just want to destroy them. But when you start taking pleasure in it you are awfully close to the thing you're fighting.” ― Ernest Hemingway, Islands in the Stream
- Ernest Hemingway
- 1970
Jun 10, 2021 · Key points. "Evil people" and "evil acts" are common, but much less common than is generally believed. Most people are moral and self-controlled. Most people who intentionally harm...
- The Bible
- Quran
- Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations
- Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers
Quotes reported in The Bible. Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil. At Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, “Ask! What shall I give you?” And Solomon said: “You have shown great mercy to Your servant David my father, because he walked before You in truth, in righteousness, and in uprightness of heart wi...
What comes to you of good is from God, but what comes to you of evil, (O mankind), is from yourself. And We have sent you, (O Muhammad), to the people as a messenger, and sufficient is God as Witness.
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations.Evil and good are God's right hand and left.There shall never be one lost good! What was shall live as before; The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying sound; What was good shall be good, with, for evil, so much good more; On the ear...He who does evil that good may come, pays a toll to the devil to let him into heaven.Quotes reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert's Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers(1895).The best antidote against evils of all kinds, against the evil thoughts that haunt the soul, against the needless perplexities which distract the conscience, is to keep hold of the good we have. Im...Even when human beings try to do evil—and even when they succeed—God is still able to use those efforts to accomplish a greater good. This landmark verse makes no excuse for human sin, while emphasizing that events we cannot understand are still part of God's greater plan (Romans 8:28).
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“Being against evil doesn't make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself. I could feel it coming just like a tide... I just want to destroy them. But when you start taking pleasure in it you are awfully close to the thing you're fighting.” ― Ernest Hemingway, Islands in the Stream
