The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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Anyone that will make a difference would have to put others ahead of them put others first.
This is the way to shine; to make a difference even as you choose to stand up, speak out and maintain a valid positive opinion.
If you are ready to make a difference and shine, then you must be ready to pay the price by laboring rightly with your mouth and with hands.
Discerning the legal difference between what WikiLeaks did and what news organizations do is difficult and would set a terrible precedent.
The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant.
Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.
I really believe in the environmental movement right now - it only takes a little effort to make a big difference.
I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the difference.
People don't change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so.
Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change.
In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English.
Until every soul is freely permitted to investigate every book, and creed, and dogma for itself, the world cannot be free. Mankind will be enslaved until there is mental grandeur enough to allow each man to have his thought and say. This earth will be a paradise when men can, upon all these questions differ, and yet grasp each other's hands as friends. It is amazing to me that a difference of opinion upon subjects that we know nothing with certainty about, should make us hate, persecute, and despise each other. Why a difference of opinion upon predestination, or the trinity, should make people imprison and burn each other seems beyond the comprehension of man; and yet in all countries where Christians have existed, they have destroyed each other to the exact extent of their power. Why should a believer in God hate an atheist? Surely the atheist has not injured God, and surely he is human, capable of joy and pain, and entitled to all the rights of man. Would it not be far better to treat this atheist, at least, as well as he treats us?Christians tell me that they love their enemies, and yet all I ask is__ot that they love their enemies, not that they love their friends even, but that they treat those who differ from them, with simple fairness.We do not wish to be forgiven, but we wish Christians to so act that we will not have to forgive them. If all will admit that all have an equal right to think, then the question is forever solved; but as long as organized and powerful churches, pretending to hold the keys of heaven and hell, denounce every person as an outcast and criminal who thinks for himself and denies their authority, the world will be filled with hatred and suffering. To hate man and worship God seems to be the sum of all the creeds.
Societies need rules that make no sense for individuals. For example, it makes no difference whether a single car drives on the left or on the right. But it makes all the difference when there are many cars!
The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in.
The only difference between fiction and religion is that people don't kill themselves over fiction.
Don't let your luggage define your travels, each life unravels differently.
Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.