Difference between revisions of "Good and Evil"
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| − | "We're not supposed to see the things we do as adding up into piles of good and evil we can subtract from each according to some kind of calculus to tell us how, on balance, we're going. Experience is not convertible. Cruelty cannot be cancelled by equal and opposite quantities of being nice. The weight of sorrow is not lightened by happiness elsewhere. The bad stuff cannot be averaged. It can only be confessed" -- Francis Spufford, Unapologetic | + | ===Weighing Good Against Evil=== |
| + | :"We're not supposed to see the things we do as adding up into piles of good and evil we can subtract from each according to some kind of calculus to tell us how, on balance, we're going. Experience is not convertible. Cruelty cannot be cancelled by equal and opposite quantities of being nice. The weight of sorrow is not lightened by happiness elsewhere. The bad stuff cannot be averaged. It can only be confessed" -- Francis Spufford, Unapologetic | ||
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| + | ===It wasn't enought to kill God=== | ||
| + | :"It wasn't enough to kill God when He showed up in Jesus, now we blame Him when we act like tools." -- Bo Gibson Bonner, Facebook Post, April 24th, 2016 | ||
Revision as of 12:51, 25 April 2016
Weighing Good Against Evil
- "We're not supposed to see the things we do as adding up into piles of good and evil we can subtract from each according to some kind of calculus to tell us how, on balance, we're going. Experience is not convertible. Cruelty cannot be cancelled by equal and opposite quantities of being nice. The weight of sorrow is not lightened by happiness elsewhere. The bad stuff cannot be averaged. It can only be confessed" -- Francis Spufford, Unapologetic
It wasn't enought to kill God
- "It wasn't enough to kill God when He showed up in Jesus, now we blame Him when we act like tools." -- Bo Gibson Bonner, Facebook Post, April 24th, 2016
