It seems to me quite inadequate to regard the qualities which spoil relationships as mere absence of good, and for myself I am driven to the conclusion that there is such a thing as evil which can infect and distort human personality just as certainly as there are germs and viruses which attack and damage the physical body. (religion-online.org)
Happiness can not be the mere absence of negative things, but has to be a positive state of mine in its own right. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
I believe this to be as fallacious a point of view as to look upon disease as the mere absence of health. (religion-online.org)