Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Piper

The evil and suffering in this world are greater than any of us can comprehend. But evil and suffering are not ultimate. God is. Satan, the great lover of evil and suffering, is not sovereign. God is.

John Newton

Many have puzzled themselves about the origin of evil. I am content to observe that there is evil, and that there is a way to escape from it, and with this I begin and end.

John Newton

I am not what I ought to be. Ah! How imperfect and deficient! I am not what I wish to be. I abhor what is evil, and I would cleave to what is good. I am not what I hope to be. Soon, soon, I shall put off mortality, and with mortality all sin and imperfection. Yet, though I am not what I ought to be, nor what I wish to be, nor what I hope to be, I can truly say, I am not what I once was—a slave to sin and Satan. And I can heartily join with the apostle, and acknowledge, ‘By the grace of God, I am what I am.’

John Ruskin

Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself -my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness -darkness -bitter mockery of herself -is the most desolating.

John Steinbeck

We only have one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil.

John Steinbeck

There are monstrous changes taking place in the world, forces shaping a future whose face we do not know. Some of these forces seem evil to us, perhaps not in themselves but because their tendency is to eliminate other things we hold good.

John Piper

Avalanches of evil begin with a single pebble of sin.

Martin O'Malley

We do need to confront evil in this world, but we do need to work with the other nation.

Martin Luther

...Hope endures and overcomes misfortune and evil.

Martin Luther

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.

Martin Luther

The forces of good and evil are working within and around me, I must choose, and in a free will universe I do have a choice.

Martin Luther

Heretics cannot themselves appear good unless they depict the Church as evil, false, and mendacious. They alone wish to be esteemed as the good, but the Church must be made to appear evil in every respect.

Nick Cave

You're one microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan.

Mosab Hassan Yousef

If there's a good side of Islam, at the end of the day it serves evil.

Seth Grahame-Smith

The true roll in determing to embrace or reject anything is not whether it have any evil in it but whether it have more of evil than of good. There are few things wholly evil or wholly good.

Ravi Zacharias

Let us remember that every worldview-not just Christianity's-must give an explanation or an answer for evil and suffering...this is not just a problem distinctive to Christianity. It will not do for the challenger just to raise the question. This problem of evil is one to which we all must offer an answer, regardless of the belief system to which we subscribe.

Ravi Zacharias

Does that not sound odd to you? When God decides who should live or die, he is immoral, When you decide who should live or die, it's your moral right. There was a pin-drop silence.

Tom Hiddleston

Everythings a choice. Nobody's born good. Nobody's born evil. It's always a choice.

Tom DeLay

These are people that don't want to protect the American people... [T]hey will do anything, spend all the time and resources they can, to avoid confronting evil.

Simon Winchester

Nature is not evil. The world occasionally shrugs its shoulders, and people get knocked off. The earth, for geological reasons that are well known, is a fairly risky place to live. To be evil, you have to have intent. Any remarkable natural happening in which no human will is employed cannot be regarded as evil.

Sinclair Lewis

Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics! I've heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I've never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.

Socrates

False language, evil in itself, infects the soul with evil.

Socrates

I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another.

Socrates

One ought not to return injustice, nor do evil to anybody in the world, no matter what one may have suffered from them.

Socrates

If one knows what is right, he will do it; nobody wants to be evil

Socrates

The misuse of language induces evil in the soul.

Michelle Rodriguez

I heard that the guy who invented the Jehovah's Witnesses was a Mason.That kind of turned me off, because when something's mysterious, all you can do is be scared of it. "He's a Mason? Ugh. It must be evil!" I didn't know much about it, so I was scared. Now I actually admire those guys - they're pretty talented. They founded a lot of the world that we look at today.

Michael Moore

Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

He’s ours now. Not made by evil, but birthed by human cruelty. (Mortent Leader)

Theodore Dreiser

Depend upon it; from every condition of distress or evil, there is a great reaction, and the greater the distress or evil, the greater the reaction.

Theodor Adorno

Triviality is evil - triviality, that is, in the form of consciousness and mind that adapts itself to the world as it is, that obeys the principle of inertia. And this principle of inertia truly is what is radically evil.

Theodor Adorno

Very evil people cannot really be imagined dying.

Melissa Etheridge

Empty and cold, but it keep me alive. I gave it my soul, so that I could survive.