Show me your hands. Do they have scars from giving? Show me your feet. Are they wounded in service? Show me your heart. Have you left a place for divine love?
Fulton J. SheenRead
All badness is spoiled goodness. A bad apple is a good apple that became rotten. Because evil has no capital of its own, it is a parasite that feeds on goodness.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Evil is a corruption of good, relying on the existence of goodness to exist.
This quote by Fulton J. Sheen highlights the idea that all forms of evil or wrongdoing are essentially a distortion of what is inherently good. It suggests that bad actions are not independent entities but rather a transformation of goodness that has become corrupted, indicating that goodness is the original state, and evil exists only as a deviation or parasite that thrives on the decay of that goodness.
Themes
GoodnessEvilCorruptionPhilosophyMorality
In practice
Example use cases
In a discussion about moral philosophy during a university lecture.
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