So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a... paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the... corrupt or evil man never practises. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... I was crying partly because I felt that this was expected of me, partly from genuine repentance, but partly also because of a ...deeper grief which is peculiar to childhood and not easy to convey: a sense of desolate loneliness and helplessness, of being locked up not only in a hostile world but in a world of good and evil where the rules were such that it was actually not possible for me to keep them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Because, according to the sage Solomon, wisdom does not enter into a soul that seeks after evil, and knowledge without conscience ...is the ruin of the soul, it behooves you to serve, love and fear God and to put all your thoughts and hope in him, and by faith founded in charity, be joined to him, such that you never be separated from him by sin.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But even in a telephone booth evil can seep out of the receiver... and we must cover it with a mattress, and then tear it from its roots and bury it, bury it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is said that he once had a sore toe that so annoyed him that he went to the woodpile and chopped it off with an axe, quoting th...e Scripture, 'If thy foot offend thee, cut it off.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »