Ed Reed Quotes

You know, we all can do bad, and we all can do good.

All sin and all crime comes from the same thing: 'I decided. I decided this was okay.'

I didn't have evil intentions, but I guess I did have power.

The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.

In the real world in which we live, you always have to choose between evils. And in choosing between evils, you have to have moral criteria for how to make those choices.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

I believe there's things all around us that make you do good things and some that make you do bad things.

Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin.

I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.

Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

That is the true definition of sin; when knowing right you do the lower, ah, then you sin. Where there is no knowledge, sin is not present.

Whether it's trivial or important, every choice has a moral aspect to it to a certain degree.

As long as I'm not hurting anybody, I don't think that anything I do is wrong.

No one is born evil; it's just the choices that they make.

Actions will be judged according to intentions.

This life is a test, and we're put down here to make choices. The truth is, the bad choices of other people can hurt us.

Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day.

Obviously everybody is accountable for their own actions, and everybody has to make judgments based on their own conscience as to whether or not they believe what they were doing is right or wrong.

It's hard to regret making the choice that you think is right.

I can understand why people are bad.

If you vote for evil, you are evil yourself.

The most disturbing thing, I think, with people that do very morally devious things more and more often is to see that they completely feel that they had no choice in the matter.