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“They are inherently good - the bad reactions aren't basic. Every human being is a child of God and has more good in him than evil - but circumstances and associates can step up the bad and reduce the good. I've got great faith in the essential fairness and decency - you may say goodness - of the human being.”

Humans May Children Evil Human Beings Steps Circumstances Essentials Goodness Reactions Fairness Associates Decency Child Of God Step Up Great Faith

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“A man who has trained himself in goodness come to have certain direct intuitions about character, about the relations between human beings, about his own position in the world - intuitions that are quite different from the intuitions of the average sensual man.”

Men World Humans Different Character Certain Human Beings Position Goodness Direct Relation Average Intuition Sensual

Book:Complete Essays: 1936-1938

Source: Complete Essays: 1936-1938

“The authentic and pure values, truth, beauty, and goodness, in the activity of a human being are the result of one and the same act, a certain application of the full attention to the object. Teaching should have no aim but to prepare, by training the attention, for the possibility of such an act. All the other advantages of instruction are without interest.”

Source: Gravity and Grace

“I've got great faith in the essential fairness and decency - you may say goodness - of the human being.”

Humans May Human Beings Wise Essentials Goodness Insightful Fairness Decency Great Faith

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“The world has always needed human beings who refuse to believe that history is nothing but a dull, monstrous selfrepetition, a selfperpetuating, meaningless game, only varied in outer garb, who cannot be converted from their conviction that history signifies progress in morality, that our race is ascending on an invisible ladder from an animal nature towards divinity, from brutal violence to the wisely ordering intellect, and that the ultimate stage of complete understanding is already close at hand, indeed has almost been attained.”

“Our only reliable source of strength is the goodness of our hearts. Our only foundation for coming to terms with the suffering of the times is our innate need to be decent human beings.”

Needs Humans Heart Suffering Term Human Beings Source Goodness Foundation Decent Innate Source Of Strength Reliable Sources

Author:Sakyong Mipham

“To wipe all tears from off all faces is a task too hard for mortals; but to alleviate misfortunes is often within the most limited power: yet the opportunities which every day affords of relieving the most wretched of human beings are overlooked and neglected with equal disregard of policy and goodness.”

Humans Hard Faces Opportunity Human Beings Policy Tears Equal Goodness Tasks Mortals Misfortunes Wretched Neglected Wipe Disregard Overlooked Alleviate

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq