Evil Quotes - Page 59

Evil is no faceless stranger, living in a distant neighborhood. Evil has a wholesome, hometown face, with merry eyes and an open smile. Evil walks among us, wearing a mask which looks like all our faces.

'Evil' is quite a blanket term. People aren't the demonic characters we would like them to be sometimes.

Evil by its very nature opposes the purposes of God, but God, in his sovereignty, can make even this evil serve his purposes.

Charity ... is kind, it is not easily provok'd, it thinks no evil, it believes all things, hopes all things.

Riches and honor are what everyone desires, but if they can be gained only by doing evil, they must not be held. Don't worry about not being in office, worry about qualifying yourself for office. Don't worry that no one knows you, but seek to be worthy of being known.

Evil, however powerful it seemed,could be undone by its own appetite

You should be more afraid of a stupid man than of an evil one.

Suffering is better than sinning. There is more evil in a drop of sin than in an ocean of affliction. Better, burn for Christ, than turn from Christ.

Human courtship has some wild extremes. At one end of the spectrum, there is harassment, pestering, blackmail, and an abuse of institutional power, which its targets rightly fear and loathe. At the other end is love, which as Nietzsche said, is beyond good and evil and always deserves our respect and compassion even when it is doomed or destructive. In the wide middle of the spectrum are all the ambiguous and tragi-comic goings-on of our species.

Free will, though it makes evil possible, also makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having.

Through pride the devil became the devil. Pride leads to every vice, it's the complete anti-God state of mind.

The devil doesn't care how big your church is - he cares how influential it is.

Loathesome I am, and evil. You can mock me for that. But leave my pain alone!

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

although it has been said that idle hands are the devil's workshop, when it comes to teenagers, both idle and active hands are the devil's workshop.

A callous disregard for the claims of innocent human life is the heart and soul of the evil of terrorism.

In the real world in which we live, you always have to choose between evils. And in choosing between evils, you have to have moral criteria for how to make those choices.

The act of evil breeds others to follow, young sins in its own likeness.

God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.

Put an end to so great an evil and arrive at a peace settlement whatever the outcome, and whatever the conditions.

A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won't fail to see a chance to meddle.

One of the tremendous evils of the world, is the monstrous accumulation of power in a few hands.

Since all the riches of this world May be gifts from the Devil and earthly kings, I should suspect that I worshipp'd the Devil If I thank'd my God for worldly things.

In the end, nothing is lost. Every event, for good or evil, has effects forever.

Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.