Wickedness Quotes - Page 3

Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.

Great God, have pity on the wicked, for thou didst everything for the good, when thou madest them good!

One man's wickedness may easily become all men's curse.

The form of godliness may exist with secret and with open wickedness, but the power of godliness cannot.

It is the evil that lies in ourselves that is ever least tolerant of the evil that dwells within others.

Our goodness comes solely from thinking on goodness; our wickedness from thinking on wickedness. We too are the victims of our own contemplation.

We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves.

Wickedness is nourished by lust.

In every government on earth is some trace of human weakness, some germ of corruption and degeneracy, which cunning will discover, and wickedness insensibly open, cultivate and improve.

It is not difficult to avoid death. It is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.

All the wickedness in the world begins with an act of forgetting.

Mental stains can not be removed by time, nor washed away by any waters. [Lat., Animi labes nec diuturnitate vanescere nec omnibus ullis elui potest.]

Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.

Wickedness is weakness.

Slander is a complication, a comprisal and sum of all wickedness.

The world loves a spice of wickedness.

Very simply, the Spirit of Elijah is the Holy Ghost. The Spirit of Elijah will influence anyone who is involved in this work. That, for a young person in the wickedness in the world in which we live today, is one of the greatest safeguards against the temptations of the adversary. The Spirit of Elijah will not only bless you, it will protect you.

There are souls which, crab-like, crawl continually toward darkness, going back in life rather than advancing in it, using what experience they have to increase their deformity, growing worse without ceasing, and becoming steeped more and more thoroughly in an intensifying wickedness.

Depend on it, that from every condition of distress or evil there is a great reaction, and the greater the evil or distress, the greater the reaction. If we do not get a reaction quick, we will get it long when it does come.

I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.

This also is a part of the Church's teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at a certain time, and is to be destroyed on account of its wickedness.

The wicked are always surprised to find that the good can be clever.

No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.

Virtue and vice are not arbitrary things; but there is a natural and eternal reason for goodness and virtue, and against vice and wickedness.

Spite is our unjust reaction to the exposure of our incapability's.