Famous Quotes & Sayings

Reinhold Niebuhr

Ultimately evil is done not so much by evil people, but by good people who do not know themselves and who do not probe deeply.

Rick Warren

The Bible says that evil cannot be negotiated with. It has to just be stopped.

Rick Riordan

I whistled. "You have evil thoughts for a goat.

Paramahansa Yogananda

If you permit your thoughts to dwell on evil you yourself will become ugly. Look only for the good in everything so you absorb the quality of beauty.

Ovid

These are the evils which result from gossiping habits.

Ovid

All things may corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

P. C. Cast

No, Kramisha, he's not black. He's a killer bird with evil for his Daddy.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

All spirits are enslaved which serve things evil

Percy Bysshe Shelley

You would not easily guess All the modes of distress Which torture the tenants of earth; And the various evils, Which like so many devils, Attend the poor souls from their birth.

Meher Baba

There is no such thing as evil. Only relative degrees of good.

Pope Benedict XVI

The sharing of goods and resources, from which authentic development proceeds, is not guaranteed by merely technical progress and relationships of utility, but by the potential of love that overcomes evil with good.

Pope Benedict XVI

A Catholic would be guilty of formal cooperation in evil, and so unworthy to present himself for Holy Communion, if he were to deliberately vote for a candidate precisely because of the candidate's permissive stand on abortion and/or euthanasia.

Pope Benedict XVI

In the face of horror ... there is no other answer than the cross of Christ: Love that descends to the abyss of evil.

Pope John Paul II

To humanity, which sometimes seems to be lost and dominated by the power of evil, selfishness and fear, the risen Lord gives the gift of His love which forgives, reconciles and reopens the soul to hope.

Pope John Paul II

There is no evil to be faced that Christ does not face with us. There is no enemy that Christ has not already conquered. There is no cross to bear that Christ has not already borne for us, and does not now bear with us.

Pierre Corneille

All evils are equal when they are extreme.

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.