Difference Quote by Lewis B. Smedes

“Here is the truth about tragedy: it's good for the soul.”

— Harlan Coben

“If we know the good we ought to do, but fail to act, we sin.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom. ‘All men make mistakes,’ said the ancient Greek Sophocles. ‘But a good man yields…

— Ken Follett

“real tragedy is never a straightforward confrontation between Good and Evil, but is, rather, much more exquisitely and much more agonizingly, a conflict between…

— Daniel Mendelsohn

Tragedy should remain the right of human beings, subject, in their conditions or in their own nature, to the dire law of necessity. To…

— Isak Dinesen

“Life is like the drama on a stage. What was once declared as a sin, perhaps much worse nowadays.”

— Toba Beta

“We sin if we do not confront sin as sin.”

— R.J. Rushdoony

“Most people experience both tragedy and joy in varying proportions. Any philosophy which leaves out either cannot be considered to be comprehensive.”

— Abraham Harold Maslow

“One does not have to be without sin to castigate someone else for being a rapist or murder.”

— Kenneth Pollack

“The worst tragedy of sin isn't that it produced bad behavior, but that it produced the idea that bad behavior is strong enough to…

— D.R. Silva

“This should remind us that the primary threat to the safety of our loved ones is always our own sin.”

— Richard D. Phillips

“Tragedy cleans the windows of the soul by washing away the bias of our lives in the detergent of pain.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough