Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pierre Corneille

All evils are equal when they are extreme. [Fr., Et tous maux sont pareils alors qu'ils sont extremes.]

Pope Francis

The border between good and evil passes not outside of us but within us

Pope Francis

If evil is contagious, so is good:therefore, we must allow good to abound in us, more and more;let us be infected by goodness, and let us spread the good contagion.

Pope Francis

Whoever does not pray to God, prays to the devil.

Pope Francis

Be the first to seek to bring good, do not grow accustomed to evil, but defeat it.

Pope Francis

God’s goodness is stronger than any evil!

Pope Francis

Concealing or denying evil is like allowing a wound to keep bleeding without bandaging it,

Pope Francis

True love does not pay attention to the evil it suffers. It rejoices in doing good.

Pope Francis

Resolve not to be overcome by evil, but to combat evil with good.

Paulo Coelho

Negative desires can cause no evil if you do not allow yourself to be seduced by them.

Phil Spector

God won't let me into heaven because I'm too evil.

Phil Ochs

I like Hitler, jolly jolly Hitler.

Phil Robertson

The more make up a woman wears the more she's tryin to hide. Make up can hide a lot of evil.

Poe Ballantine

Amazon is evil, like anything big, but we can't help if it flows the very center of literature.

Plutarch

The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.

Plutarch

The authors of great evils know best how to remove them.

Pope Francis

The crucifix does not signify defeat or failure. It reveals to us the Love that overcomes evil and sin.

Pope Francis

The Cross is the Word through which God has responded to evil in the world.

Mike Pence

We all lived through September 11. I was here at the Capitol that day. I saw the evil of our enemies written in the smoke rising above the Pentagon.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

What is there so ponderous in evil, that a thumb's bigness of it should outweigh the mass of things not evil, which were heaped into the other scale!

George MacDonald

Annihilation itself is no death to evil. Only good where evil was, is evil dead. An evil thing must live with its evil until it chooses to be good. That alone is the slaying of evil.

Emmet Fox

To be afraid is to have more faith in evil than in God.

Emanuel Swedenborg

A person who knows all that is good and all that is true---as much as can be known---but does not resist evils, knows nothing.

Ellen Hopkins

Never accept evil as something you must walk with, something you deserve.

Ellen Hopkins

Evil is not intrinsic. It's fashioned.

Ellen Hopkins

I nod, because I do understand. I'm just not sure how to go about divorcing myself from the evil I've already accepted.

John Bunyan

He that doth righteousness; that is, righteousness which the gospel calleth so, is righteous; that is, precedent to, or before he doth that righteousness. For he doth not say, he shall make his person righteous by acts of righteousness that he shall do; for then an evil tree may bear good fruit, yea, and make itself good by doing so; but he saith, He that doth righteousness is righteous; as he saith, He that doth righteousness is born of him.

John D. Rockefeller

The best philanthropy is constantly in search of the finalities-a search for a cause, an attempt to cure evils at their source.

Leo Tolstoy

There is only one way to put an end to evil, and that is to do good for evil.

Leo Tolstoy

I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.

Leo Buscaglia

We are not evil, inadequate or incompetent when our relationships fail.

Joseph Campbell

The process of nature cannot be evil.

Joseph Campbell

You yourself are participating in the evil, or you are not alive. Whatever you do is evil for somebody. This is one of the ironies of the whole creation.