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Quotes About Evil

That evil mojo thing was in my pocket, though, wasn't it?" she demanded. If it hadn't been, she was just plain-and-simple cursed.
~ Suzanne Enoch
Jealousy is an evil which grows in the womb of ego and is nourished by selfishness and attachment.
~ Swami Rama
Like sin itself, Satan appeals to the senses. He originated and perfected the art of disguising evil as good.
~ Swindoll Charles R.
While God is not the author of evil and He never prompts or condones sin, nothing occurs without His sovereign oversight. Others may choose to do evil deeds and God's people may suffer in the short term, but He will transform the evil intentions of evil people into opportunities for the enrichment of those in His care.
~ Swindoll Charles R.
Why should men love the Church? Why should they love her laws? She tells them of Life and Death, and of all that they would forget. She is tender where they would be hard, and hard where they like to be soft. She tells them of Evil and Sin, and other unpleasant facts. They constantly try to escape From the darkness outside and within By dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good. But the man that is will shadow The man that pretends to be.
~ T.S. Eliot
However you disguise it, this thing does not change: The perpetual struggle of Good and Evil.
~ T.S. Eliot
The world turns and the world changes, But one thing does not change. In all of my years, one thing does not change, However you disguise it, this thing does not change: The perpetual struggle of Good and Evil.
~ T.S. Eliot
We aim at experience in the particular centres in which alone it is evil. We avoid classification. We do not deny it. But when a man is classified something is lost.
~ T.S. Eliot
There are evil neighborhoods of noise and evil neighborhoods of silence, and Eeldrop and Appleplex preferred the latter, as being the more evil. It
~ T.S. Eliot
I've said it before and I'll say it again, my lord. You are an evil man.
~ Tamora Pierce
I began to feel lighthearted. Don't ever do that; it tempts some dark and evil force abroad in the universe.
~ Tanith Lee
It was the forest's fault. Those two handsome woodcutters. An evil place, the forest, everyone knew it, full of temptations and imps...
~ Tanith Lee
Then as now, evil begins its courtship cloaked in light. And the heart embraces what is should flee. Forgetting it once had a true lover. Love will prove greater than lust. Sacrifice will overcome seduction. And blood will flow.
~ Ted Dekker
So where does Stan fit in this equation?... We are told to meditate on scripture, even the hald that details the consequences of evil, the consequent of Jericho and all. Not to pretend out God has somehow changed since the time of Christ. Obviously, Paul's idea of admirable and noble is quite different from ours. God forgives us, Bill. We have mocked His victory by whitewashing the enemy for the sake of our neighbirs approval. No Greater Love has any man...
~ Ted Dekker
I once thought I defeated the evil in my heart. I learned something: We can face our demons, burn them up, stomp them into the ground. I turned mine to ashes. But even if you destroy the evidence of evil, you can't heal your heart. Not by yourself.
~ Ted Dekker
Not evil. Not any more evil than the colored trees are good.Evil and good reside in the heart, not in trees and water.
~ Ted Dekker
The world didn't like to look at the dark underside very often. But that didn't change the ugliness; it only ensured that those who perpetuated the ugliness were left alone to kill and maim and rape.
~ Ted Dekker
Then maybe you can tell me something else. How is it that Elyon can allow evil to exist in the black forest? Why doesn't he just destroy the Shataiki?" "Because evil provides his creation with a choice," the child said as though the concept was very simple indeed. "And because without it, there could be no love.
~ Ted Dekker
Blood is life. Disease here and evil there are both carried by blood. And they're wiped out by blood.
~ Ted Dekker
You humans are lovers, yes? So you have this awful tendency to reject Him who first loved you and follow after intoxicating sense. Evil is a jealous lover who will try to destroy what it cannot posses.
~ Ted Dekker
In the first garden, the first Adam, me, had said, Not your will, but mine, and eaten of the knowledge of good and evil, which was judgment and grievance. In the second garden, the second Adam, Yeshua, had said, Not my will, but yours, and surrendered his life.
~ Ted Dekker
Maybe they only come out at night," I said, staring into the flames. "Why would evil wait for night? Is it that limited?
~ Ted Dekker
Because the real wolf comes to kill. To steal. To destroy.
~ Ted Dekker
Princess, the great difference between people in this world is not between the rich and the poor or the good and the evil, the biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have the pleasure in love and those that haven't and hadn't any pleasure in love, but just watched it with envy, sick envy. The spectators and the performers.
~ Tennessee Williams