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"I still believe in the nonviolent Jesus and the basic human goodness present in all of us."
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"Do all the good you can while you still have the opportunity."
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"Be good to attract good."
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"Goodness is uneventful. It does not flash, it glows."
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"Perhaps, if you weren't so busy regarding my shortcomings, you'd find that I do possess redeeming qualities, discreet as they may be. I notice when the sky is blue. I smile down at children. I laugh at any innocent attempt at humor. I quietly carry the burdens of others as though they were my own. And I say 'I'm sorry' when you don't. I am not without fault, but I am not without goodness either."
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"My goodness, everyone is planting grapes, even a neighbor with only five acres."
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"If there is any solace to be found in the carnage of September 11th, may I find it in understanding that the potential to do great good can handily rival the tendency to carry out great evil. And out of that understanding may I commit in my own life to make certain that in such a critical rivalry I will ensure that towers will never fall because of me, but people will be raised up due to me."
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"We hunger after the sweet nectar of happiness without understanding that it is harvested from the flowering field of good deeds."
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"I think the most that I've learned has been, how do I put this? The innate goodness inside of all of us."
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"Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness."
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"The existence of true religion is predicated on the practice of goodness. Goodness is Godliness. There is nothing else. Religion lies in practice, not in bookish theories."
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"I never went to college when I was young and am looking forward to giving it a try... at age 65!"
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"It doesn't really matter how much of the rules or the dogma we accepted and lived by if we're not really living by the fundamental creed of the Catholic Church, which is service to others and finding God in ourselves and then seeing God in everyone - including our enemies."
God
"George W Bush is like a bad comic working the crowd, a moron, if you'll pardon the expression."
Expression
"I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it."
Government
"I am a very conscientious golfer. I count every stroke. I learned to play that way. That is the only way I can play. It taught me to be honest. There is no greater virtue than honesty."
Honesty
"My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI."
First
"When I reached adulthood, even now, I could afford to belong to a country club. But I could never belong to a private club because of my experience as a child, because it would isolate me from the whole of humanity."
Experience
"Those years on the golf course as a caddie, boy, those people were something. They were vulgar, some were alcoholics, racist, they were very difficult people to deal with. A lot of them didn't have a sense of humor."
Humor
"What we try to say is that it doesn't matter if you are a Republican or a Democrat or conservative or independent. You are equally responsible for your place in the culture, and you must make a contribution, and you must accept responsibility for what goes down on your watch."
Conservative
"Well, I think that Catholicism's basic foundation of faith is personal conscience. I think it's between you and God, not you and the Church."
Faith
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