Good morning, everybody.

Happy doing well.

This is Bible verses, and we are going to look at Psalms 145 8 to 9.

Psalms 145, 8 to 9.

And I quote,

The Lord is gracious and full of compassion,

slow to anger, and of great mercy. The Lord is good to all, and his tender mercies

are all over his works. So, we can take this, of course, as God. If you're secular,

we can take this as what is the most virtuous. What is the most virtuous? Gracious and full of compassion,

slow to anger, and of great mercy. One of the things that corrupt people don't really understand

is how much good people want them to improve.

If you have somebody who's an addict, a drunk drug addict,

it's hard for them to understand how much those around them want them to improve,

want them to get better, want them to give up their addiction.

We are rooting, we good people,

we are all rooting desperately sometimes for corrupt people to become good. Now, that is a hope born of optimism and sometimes, you know, optimism needs to be in the Aristotelian mean. Too little optimism and you're

depressed, too much optimism and you are exploited. So you need to a healthy amount in the middle,

which doesn't answer much other than to saying it is one of the virtues where an excess is a problem.

Even a virtue like honesty, an excess of honesty is not healthy because then

you put everything out into the world, which allows you to be targeted and exploited. So honesty

is also one of these virtues that you need to balance a little bit, not so much in your private life.

Of course, you'll be honest with people in your private life, but in the world as a whole, right?

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