Quoty: quotes tagged with 'bad'

To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his ...

To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.

Author: ~St Catherine of Siena, Source: ~Unknown
Saved by cliffhanger in luck good bad brave

The Spirit has taught that Satan doesn�t have t...

The Spirit has taught that Satan doesn�t have to tempt us to do bad things. He can accomplish much of his objective by distracting us with many acceptable things, thus keeping us from accomplishing the essential ones. We need to frustrate that distraction by identifying what is critically important in our lives. We must give the cream of our effort to accomplish those things. Where there is limited time or resources, this pattern may require that some good activities must be set�aside.
Author: Richard G. Scott, Source: http://speeches.byu.edu/reader/reader.php?id=11954
Saved by richardkmiller in effort focus time good bad best distraction better

Int he long run either Our Father or the Enemy ...

Int he long run either Our Father or the Enemy will say 'Mine' of each thing that exists, and specially of each man. They will find out in the end, never fear, to whom their time, their souls, and their bodies really belong�certainly not to them, whatever happens.
Author: C. S. Lewis, Source: The Screwtape Letters
Saved by richardkmiller in judgment light good dark bad

You complain that my last letter does not make ...

You complain that my last letter does not make it clear whether I regard *being in love* as a desirable state for a human or not. But really, Wormwood, that is the sort of question one expects *them* to ask! Leave them to discuss whether 'Love', or patriotism, or celibacy, or candles on altars, or teetotalism, or education, are 'good' or 'bad'. Can't you see there's no answer? Nothing matters at all except the tendency of a given state of mind, in given circumstances, to move a particular patient at a particular moment near to [God] or nearer to us.
Author: C. S. Lewis, Source: The Screwtape Letters
Saved by richardkmiller in education patriotism mind love good bad spirituality influences

There comes a time when the general defilement ...

There comes a time when the general defilement of a society becomes so great that the rising generation is put under undue pressure and cannot be said to have a fair choice between the way of light and the way of darkness. When such a point is reached, the cup of iniquity is full, and the established order that has passed the point of no return and neither can nor will change its way much be removed physically and forcibly if necessary from the earth, whether by war, plague, famine, or upheavals of nature.
Author: Hugh Nibley, Source: An Approach to the Book of Mormon: The Collected Worksk of Hugh Nibley
Saved by richardkmiller in choice light good darkness bad naturaldisaster

Some of life�s most complicated decisions invol...

Some of life�s most complicated decisions involve mixtures of good and evil. To what extent can one seek the benefit of something good one desires when this can only be done by simultaneously promoting something bad one opposes? That is a personal decision, but it needs to be made with a sophisticated view of the entire circumstance and with a prayer for heavenly guidance.
Author: Dallin H. Oaks, Source: http://library.lds.org/nxt/gateway.dll/Magazines/Ensign/1989.h...
Saved by richardkmiller in agency right wrong discernment good balance bad decisions