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All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.


Author: Edmund Burke, Source: UnknownSaved by skkanani in evil piety 3 weeks ago[save this] [permalink]Author: Martin Luther King Jr., Source: http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Martin_Luther_King_Jr.Saved by Becky in politics truth evil good 4 months ago[save this] [permalink]

No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good. A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. After all, you find the strength of the German army by fighting against it, not by giving in. You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it not by lying down. A man who gives into the temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in. We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it; and Christ, because He was the only man who never yielded to temptation, is also the only man who knows to the full what temptation really means - the only complete realist.

Author: C.S. Lewis, Source: Mere Christianity, Macmillian 1952 versionSaved by mlsscaress in agency christ evil temptation good fidelity overcome succomb resisit realist 10 months ago[save this] [permalink]

Criticism, faultfinding, evil speaking—these are of the spirit of the day. To hear tell, there is nowhere a man of integrity holding public office. All businessmen are crooks. The utilities are out to rob you. Even on campus there is heard so much the snide remark, the sarcastic jibe, the cutting down of associates—these, too often, are the essence of our conversation. In our homes, wives weep and children finally give up under the barrage of criticism leveled by abusive husbands and fathers. Criticism is the forerunner of divorce, the cultivator of rebellion, sometimes the catalyst that leads to failure. In the Church, it sows the seed of inactivity and finally apostasy.

I come to you tonight with a plea that we stop seeking out the storms and enjoy more fully the sunlight. I am suggesting that as we go through life we try to "accentuate the positive." I am asking that we look a little deeper for the good, that we still our voices of insult and sarcasm, that we more generously compliment virtue and effort. Now I am not asking that all criticism be silenced. Growth comes of correction. Strength comes of repentance. Wise is the man or woman who can acknowledge mistakes pointed out by others and change his or her course.

What I am suggesting is that you turn from the negativism that so permeates our modern society and look for the remarkable good among those with whom you associate, that we speak of one another’s virtues more than we speak of one another’s faults, that optimism replace pessimism, that our faith exceed our fears. When I was a young man and was prone to speak critically, my wise father would say: "Cynics do not contribute. Skeptics do not create. Doubters do not achieve."

Author: President Gordon B. Hinckley , Source: http://lds.org/broadcast/ces090901/transcript/0,11006,566,00.h...Saved by mlsscaress in faith evil optimism fears family home criticism faultfinding conversation sarcasm remarks 1 year ago[save this] [permalink]

I do not know that things were worse in the times of Sodom and Gomorrah.


He went on to say, "They and their wicked inhabitants were annihilated. We see similar conditions today. They prevail all across the world. I think our Father must weep as He looks down upon His wayward sons and daughters.

Author: Gordon B. Hinckley, Source: “Standing Strong and Immovable,” Worldwide Leadership Training Meeting, Jan. 10, 2004, 20Saved by cboyack in wickedness evil world sodom gomorrah 2 years ago[save this] [permalink]

We will find that not only are there strategic signposts of morality, but there are also tactical standards of morality with which we must be concerned if we are to preserve our identity in the way that is most helpful to us and to our fellowmen. We must not unintentionally assume the appearance of evil in its various cultural costumes and dispensational dimensions. The length of Samson’s hair not only gave him strength, it set him apart from the Philistines, whose passion for alcohol Samson did not share either. The prophet will always help us to set the tone of tactical morality when such is needed to set us apart from some contemporaries. Paul did this for female Church members in Corinth, counseling them, I am told, so they would not be confused with prostitutes because of uncovered hair. Thus, the principles do not change, but as Dr. Daniel H. Ludlow has said, the practices may vary. We can always look to the prophet for guidance with regard to these tactical dimensions of morality.

Author: Neal A. Maxwell, Source: http://lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db010Vg...Saved by cboyack in wickedness evil morality prophet culture 2 years ago[save this] [permalink]

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.

Author: C. S. Lewis, Source: The Problem of Pain, p. 92Saved by ldsphilosopher in evil sin error pain 2 years ago[save this] [permalink]
The argument is that if God is all-loving, all-powerful, and all-knowing, then the existence of evil is inexplicable, for such a God could create a world without evil—he has the power and the knowledge to do so—and he would create it, for his love would require that he do so. According to the argument, therefore, the existence of God is incompatible with the existence of evil. For many, the suppressed conclusion is that it is irrational to believe in God if one recognizes the existence of evil, as most people do.
Author: James Faulconer, Source: Another Look at the Problem of TheodicySaved by ldsphilosopher in evil philosophy theology omnipotence theodicy 2 years ago[save this] [permalink]
By pointing at the non-integratibility of evil, the problem of theodicy shows us that evil is, indeed, a horror. But the problem can reveal that horror only if no solution to it is finally satisfactory. As I said in my criticism of Leibniz, any solution to the problem of evil, any integration of it into a rational theology, amounts to an argument that there is, in fact, no real evil and that stoicism rather than horror ought to be our response to suffering. It follows that if a theodicy solves the problem of evil, then it justifies Satan. Only if the problem of theodicy is genuinely a problem—only if all solutions ultimately fail—can we continue to know that evil is genuinely evil.
Author: James Faulconer, Source: Another Look at the Problem of TheodicySaved by ldsphilosopher in faith evil theodicy 2 years ago[save this] [permalink]
That war, so bitter, so intense, has never ceased. It is the war between truth and error, between agency and compulsion, between the followers of Christ and those who have denied Him. His enemies have used every stratagem in that conflict. They’ve indulged in lying and deceit. They’ve employed money and wealth. They’ve tricked the minds of men. They’ve murdered and destroyed and engaged in every kind of evil practice to thwart the work of Christ.
Author: Gordon B. Hinckley, Source: http://lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db010Vg...Saved by cboyack in freedom satan truth agency war christ evil error good force compulsion warinheaven 2 years ago[save this] [permalink]

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