Wickedness Quotes - Page 5

Peace and wickedness are far asunder.

The wickedness of mankind makes it necessary for the law to suppose them better than they really are.

Pride, if not the origin, is the medium of all wickedness-the atmosphere without which it would instantly die away.

I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn't find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest substance - You, O God - towards inferior things, rejecting its own inner life and swelling with external matters.

Meekness is the mask of malice.

...the sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far the hardest to bear.

It takes physical courage to indulge in wickedness. The "good" are too cowardly to do it.

My only wickedness is that I love you; my only goodness, the same.

Insanity has excuses; wickedness has not.

To great evils we submit, we resent little provocations.

Death is not the worst evil, but rather when we wish to die and cannot.

Wickedness frames the engines of her own torment. She is a wonderful artisan of a miserable life.

If you are a guillotine producer, watch out your head; because wickedness is a boomerang.

My own feeling is that if adultery is wickedness then so is food. Both make me feel so much better afterward.

Occasionally I was so much better that I could go out; but the streets used to put me in such a rage that I would lock myself up for days rather than go out, even if I were well enough to do so! I could not bear to see all those preoccupied, anxious-looking creatures continuously surging along the streets past me! Why are they always anxious? What is the meaning of their eternal care and worry? It is their wickedness, their perpetual detestable malice-that's what it is-they are all full of malice, malice!

Wickedness never did, never does, never will bring us happiness.

As all our wickedness consists in turning away from our Creator, so all our goodness consists in uniting ourselves with Him.

We know that it is possible to harness desire to many interests, that evil is one form of a desire, and not the nature of it.

Life is as if you were traveling a ridge crest. You have the gulf of inefficiency on one side and the gulf of wickedness on the other, and it helps not to have avoided one gulf if you fall into the other.

The Christian who will sit with sealed lips when his Master is assailed, when religion is attacked, when wickedness is broached and defended, when truth is denounced, is a denier of his Lord, as guilty as Simon Peter in Pilate's hall.

Are people born wicked, or is wickedness trust upon them?

There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

The way to wickedness is always through wickedness.

Almost all the moral good which is left among us is the apparent effect of physical evil.

Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we ought not to fear with to much dejection.