Quotes About Evil

As a kid I heard the word malignancy as "Malig-Nancy" like an evil woman's name, no matter how many times Kiwi and the Chief and Dr. Gautman himself corrected me. Our mother had mistaken her first symptoms for a pregnancy, and so I still pictured the Malig-Nancy as a baby, a tiny, eyeless fist of a sister, killing her.

If we don't believe in the Devil, we won't be able to recognize him when he suddenly shows up.

Men ziet niet veel, waar de duivel de kaars houdt. ~ Errki (Wie de wolf vreest)

The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people worse than they are.

The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people meaner.

Das Ãœbel gedeiht nie besser, als wenn ein Ideal davorsteht

All nationalism or racialism is evil, and Jewish nationalism is no exception.

Hi. Come on in." Call looked nervous, too. "After I told you about the binoculars, I wasn't sure I'd still be welcome." She smiled. "I remembered what happened that morning with the bear and decided to think of it as having a guardian angel." A corner of his mouth curved. "Now I'm an angel. I think I like that better than evil genie.

Self-hatred seems to me an evil thing in itself rather than an antidote to evil. If we practice self-hatred, then the sacrifice we make of ourselves and our lives is not sacred, for it is then a gift of something we hate rather than of something that we have nurtured and loved.

God shields the souls of the innocent the best He can from the Devil's torments.

That's a Christian concept. No self-respecting witch would worship a Christian god of evil.

Who will rise up against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity? —Psalms 94:16

America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance — it is not. It is suffering from tolerance. Tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error, virtue and evil, Christ and chaos. Our country is not nearly so overrun with the bigoted as it is overrun with the broadminded.

Just as there is an archetype of woman as the object of man's eternal love, so there must be an archetype of her as the object of his eternal fear, representing, perhaps, the shadow of his own evil actions.

Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

Evil in man is radical, so much so that it cannot be overcome by human power.

Theodicy ... what is involved is not a theoretical answer to the enigma of evil ... but an answer of faith ... the abstract questions of theodicy fall away in the shadow of the event of the cross.

The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Father Tomaselli, a now-deceased exorcist, used to say that at times a single blasphemer was sufficient to ruin an entire family with diabolical presences. This case proved his point.

El empeño principal del diablo es hacer que el hombre piense sólo en las cosas de la tierra.

Avoid the evil, and it will avoid thee.

Christians are to avoid foolish living. Wise living understands the folly of immorality and the value of doing whatever is pleasing to the Lord. The days are so evil, and the need for properly functioning, serving Christians is so great, wise Christians will make good use of their time, taking opportunities for ministry as they come. Knowledge of the moral will of God will give discernment not only between good and evil, but between what is wise and what is foolish.

Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.

The person who understands the evil in his own heart is the only person who is useful, fruitful, and solid in his beliefs and obedience. Others only delude themselves and thus upset families, churches, and all other relationships. In their self-pride and judgment of others, they show great inconsistency.