Quotes about evil
evil grace doe
Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent. John Calvin
evil use instruments
So great and boundless is God's wisdom that he knows right well how to use evil instruments to do good.
evil fellowship kind
Whomever the Lord has adopted and deemed worthy of His fellowship ought to prepare themselves for a hard, toilsome, and unquiet life, crammed with very many and various kinds of evil.
evil authority
To resist him that is set in authority is evil John Bartlett
evil mind patterns
A benevolent mind, and the face assumes the patterns of benevolence. An evil mind, then an evil face. Jimmy Sangster
evil soul entrances
Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself. George A. Smith
evil perceive
Evil resides in the very gaze which perceives Evil all around itself. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
evil islam wicked
Islam is an evil and wicked religion. Franklin Graham
evil suffering doe
This is the love that does all things; that brings to pass even the evils we suffer; so shaping them that they are but instruments of preparing the good which, as yet, has not arrived. Francois Fenelon
evil gossip rumor
Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around. Frank A. Clark
evil tree may
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 Bunyan
evil can-do
Evil can do anything, for a price. Lois Lowry
evil wish
Evil cannot be conquered by wishing. Lloyd Alexander
evil mask
Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?
evil vader epitome
To me, Darth Vader is the epitome of evil. Manu Bennett
evil literature dubious
How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question. Lytton Strachey
evil stupidity accompany
Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity. Louise Bogan
evil talent danger
All the worse for the undeniable talent which hides the evil so subtly and makes the danger so delightful. Louisa May Alcott
evil misogyny evil-women
You evil thing, why do you haunt me? John Fogerty
evil people advancement
Sometimes God makes use of instruments for good to His people, who designed nothing but evil and mischief to them. Thus Joseph's brethren were instrumental to his advancement in that very thing in which they designed his ruin (Gen. 50:20). John Flavel
evil pot duty
Duty is but a pot. It holds whatever is put in it, from the greatest evil to the greatest good. John Fowles
evil way ends
There is only one way to put an end to evil, and that is to do good for evil. Leo Tolstoy
evil causes want
I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
evil failing our-relationship
We are not evil, inadequate or incompetent when our relationships fail. Leo Buscaglia
evil process
The process of nature cannot be evil. Joseph Campbell
evil alive irony
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.
evil joy sorrow
All societies are evil, sorrowful, inequitable; and so they will always be. So if you really want to help this world, what you will have to teach is how to live in it. And that no one can do who has not himself learned how to live in it in the joyful sorrow and sorrowful joy of the knowledge of life as it is.
evil growth world
The destruction of the inducement to invest by an excessive liquidity-preference was the outstanding evil, the prime impediment to the growth of wealth, in the ancient and medieval worlds. John Maynard Keynes
evil long mind
The spectacle of modern investment markets has sometimes moved me towards the conclusion that to make the purchase of an investment permanent and indissoluble, like marriage, except by reason of death or other grave cause, might be a useful remedy for our contemporary evils. For this would force the investor to direct his mind to the long-term prospects and to those only.
evil heaven looks
I'm not a god or the God, but we're all God and we're all potentially divine — and potentially evil. We all have everything within us and the Kingdom of Heaven is nigh and within us, and if you look hard enough you'll see it. John Lennon
evil political religion
We're all God. I'm not a god or the God, but we're all God and we're all potentially divine-and potentially evil.
evil slaying annihilation
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. George MacDonald
evil
To be afraid is to have more faith in evil than in God. Emmet Fox