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If he desires what is good his temper can become the controlled instrument for fighting the evil that is in himself and helping other men to overcome the obstacles which they meet in the world. He remains free to desire either good or evil.
— Thomas Merton
For love does not seek a joy that follows from its effect: its joy is in the effect itself, which is the good of the beloved...love, therefore, is its own reward.
— Thomas Merton
ANOTHER characteristic of the devil's moral theology is the exaggeration of all distinctions between this and that, good and evil, right and wrong. These distinctions become irreducible divisions.
— Thomas Merton
Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.
— Thomas Paine
Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
— CS Lewis
Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.
— CS Lewis
There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.
— CS Lewis
The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.
— Calvin Coolidge
Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
— Calvin Coolidge
Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place
— Carl Jung
It is with you all the time and demands fulfillment. If you pretend to be blind and dumb to this demand, you feign being blind and deaf to yourself This way you will never reach the knowledge of the heart. The knowledge ofyour heart is how your heart is. From a cunning heart you will know cunning. From a good heart you will know goodness. So that your understanding becomes perfect, consider that your heart is both good and evil. You ask, "What? Should I also live evil?
— Carl Jung
When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.
— George Bernard Shaw