Christianity is not about good people getting better. It is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good.
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Christianity is not about good people getting better. It is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good.
Are the problems of the world caused by bad people who need to be crushed? Or do people do bad things when they are in a certain situation? If it is the latter, then we can go around crushing the villains for another thousand years and nothing will change.
I think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it's a very mysterious thing, isn't it? I think it's a response in our minds to perfection. It's too bad, people not realizing that their minds expand beyond this world.
Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?
I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice.
The demands that good people make are upon themselves; Those that bad people make are upon others.
Whatever you do, good or bad, people will always have something negative to say
It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it.
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