"For in every race, gentiles or Jews or Christians, there have always been a few who excelled their fellows in faith or in the purity of their lives, and who were set apart from the multitude by their countenance or by their abstinence from worldly pleasures" (23).
This quote made me think about how man times I have heard people talk about how a non-Christian person could never possibly be a "good person". To that assumption I reply: no one, not even a christian, can ever be a "good person". We will all, always, be wretched, no matter how many times we volunteer to help out with VBS.  However, on that same note, if we are to define "good person" through earthly language, then anyone, even a supposedly wretched atheist can be a "good person." It all depends on how you define your terms. In this case, I agree with the wise lady, there are many throughout the centuries who have earned the right to be called a good earthly human being, no matter their religious affiliation.

P.S. I commented on Collin's post