Goodness - Dual-Language Quotes That Speak to the Heart

Edmund felt despair eating away at his victory. Why is the world like this? He shivered. Why does it feel so cold, so hard? A smile flickered on John's face, one that was neither happy nor sad. What would be the worth of goodness, in a world that always rewarded it? — Matthew Jobin The Nethergrim

{In the story of the Good Samaritan} everybody knows the robber is bad - - but doesn't Jesus also imply an indictment on the priest and Levite? . . . The priest and Levite are over here. They are 'righteous' in a superficial way. They don't rob anybody. They're not like that lousy criminal who is over here, on the bad end of the line. Do you see it? That's the line we modern Christians try to live on the right end of it . . . The Samaritan traveler lives on a higher level, altogether. The issue isn't who is wrong or righteous; that's obvious. The issue is who is truly good. — Brian D. McLaren A New Kind of...

I mind how I said to you once that there is a price for being good the same as for being bad; a cost to pay. And it's the good men that cant deny the bill when it comes around. They cant deny it for...

But with your life you make a few bad decisions, get unlucky a few times, whatever, but you have to keep going, right?

I guess when you're trying to find all the parts of yourself, it's difficult to be with someone who's already fully intact.

God will never disappoint us… If deep in our hearts we suspect that God does not love us and cannot manage our affairs as well as we can, we certainly will not submit to His discipline. …To the...

If there is any good in life, in history, in my own past, I invoke it now. I invoke it with all the passion with which I have lived.

He has written about equality, the perfectibility of human nature, and the essential goodness of mankind for many years -- he judges others by himself, poor soul.

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We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.

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Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...

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Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...

It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?

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