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Orson Scott Card Quotes

Orson Scott Card quotes about good

American Writer August 24, 1951

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do you know why Satan is so angry all the time?, Because whenever he works a particularly clever bit of mischief God uses it to serve his own Rigteous purposes. So God uses wicked people as his tools? God gives us the freedom to to do great evil, if we choose, Then He uses his own freedom to create goodness out of that evil, for that is what He chooses. So, in the long run, God always wins? Yes, in the short run though it Can be uncomfortable. Orson Scott Card
We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in their purity, in fiction. Orson Scott Card
My husband is a good man," she said. "It's important to him to be a good man. He has to not only be good, he has to believe that he's good. In the eyes of God, in my eyes, in his parents' eyes, in his own eyes. Good. Orson Scott Card
I know, you've been here a year, you think these people are normal. Well, they're not. WE'RE not. I look in the library, I call up books on my desk. Old ones, because they won't let us have anything new, but I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares. Children aren't in armies, they aren't COMMANDERS, they don't rule over forty other kids, it's more than anybody can take and not get crazy. Orson Scott Card
Good people aren't good because they never cause harm to others. They're good because they treat others the best way they know how, with the understanding that they have. Orson Scott Card
That's what Father and Mother are, thought Nafai. They stay together, not because of any gain, but because of the gift. Father doesn't stay with Mother because she is good for him, but rather because together they can do good for us, and for many others. Orson Scott Card
Orson Scott Card quote: "Being young is an 18 year prison sentence for a crime your..."
Being young is an 18 year prison sentence for a crime your parents committed. But you do get time off for good behavior. Orson Scott Card
Every time, I've won because I could understand the way my enemy though. From what they did. I could tell what they though I was doing, how they wanted the battle to take shape. And I played off of that. I'm very good at that. Understanding how other people think. - Ender Wiggin Orson Scott Card
When you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other person doesn't yet know that he needs your wisdom you keep it to yourself. Food only looks good to a hungry man. Orson Scott Card
Orson Scott Card quote: "God lets the guilty live right among the good, hurting them..."
God lets the guilty live right among the good, hurting them all they want; he lets the tares grow amid the corn. Orson Scott Card
So the I.F. is spying on Earth."Just as a mother spies on her children at play in the yard."Good to know you're looking out for us, Mummy. Orson Scott Card
Orson Scott Card quote: "I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father."
I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father. Orson Scott Card
You frighten me, when you say there isn't time."I don't see why. Christians have been expecting the imminent end of the world for millennia."But it keeps not ending."So far, so good. Orson Scott Card
[Ruthie] ... if he was a good man, how could he leave me? So he must not be a good man. But if he isn't good, then why does it hurt so much to lose him? Orson Scott Card
We were all fated to die, and so it is good that at least we can be sure our deaths today might bring about a good end, might make the world a better place. Orson Scott Card

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