"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent."
“God is not a Christian. God accepts as pleasing those who live by the best lights available to them that they can discern. All truth, all sense of beauty, all awareness of goodness has one source, God, who is not confined to one place, time or people.”
"We can patiently accept not being good. What we cannot bear is not being considered good, not appearing good."
"When one is firmly convinced of his own rightness and goodness, he can without qualm perpetrate the most appalling evil."
"The kings and dictators and the mighty of the world accomplish their works with great noise, with speeches and drums and loud-speakers and brass and the thunder of bombers. But God works in silence."
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.