Let him learn that slavery, like all evils, has its corresponding and greater good; that the Southern slave, though degraded compared with his master, is elevated and ennobled compared with his brethren in Africa.
Let him learn that slavery, like all evils, has its corresponding and greater good; that the Southern slave, though degraded compared with his master, is elevated and ennobled compared with his brethren in Africa.
He that will walk uprightly, must not only difference between simple good and evil, but between a greater good and a less; for most sin in the world consisteth in preferring a lesser good before a greater.
It is not then a duty when it is inconsistent with a greater good.
Therefore it must not be used when it apparently hindereth a greater good.
In this way we are said to love that one more than another, for whom we will a greater good, though our will is not more intense.
Or it may be said that counsel is not only concerned with the obtaining of greater good; but also with the avoiding of lesser evils.
Now God loves more the predestined sinner, since He wills for him a greater good, life eternal.
When any less good comes in opposition with a greater good, the lesser good in that respect becomes evil.
And it may be done without undoing a greater good than is the preservation of religion.
Claudius vowed not to visit a certain house on account of the bad language used there, but the guilty parties have now moved away), or if it has become an obstacle to a greater good (e.
For, with a change of circumstances an individual might be impeded from doing a greater good because of a preceding act of will; e.
We may, under the guidance of reason, seek a greater good in the future in preference to a lesser good in the present, and we may seek a lesser evil in the present in preference to a greater evil in the future.
We may, under the guidance of reason, seek a lesser evil in the present, because it is the cause of a greater good in the future, and we may shun a lesser good in the present, because it is the cause of a greater evil in the future.
For as a lesser evil is a kind of good, even so a lesser good is a kind of evil if it stands in the way of a greater good; and there would be something to correct in the actions of God if it were possible to do better.
Yet it comes to be by concomitance, because it serves a greater good in relation to the universe.
When God derives some glory from the evil through having made it serve a greater good, it was proper that he should derive that glory.
You must not neglect the necessary maintenance of wife and children, under pretence of doing a work of piety or greater good; because God hath prescribed you this order of your duty, that you begin at home (though not to stop there).
The sacrifice of a good for no greater good is asceticism or fanaticism.
Thus also the case must be resolved whether an oath bind that hindereth a greater good which I might do if I had not taken it.
Such is that prudence which, though rich in its own right, is nevertheless subordinate to greater good.
The many, with their yearning for a universal happiness, with their deep concern for the greater good, and their jealous compassion for all souls, destroyed the narrow eminence of the few.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "greater good" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
