Quotes About Evil

God wants us to recognize good as good, evil as evil, and never confuse the two. Individuals and societies become wicked in the sight of God when they pervert justice and ethics by confusing or even reversing the definitions of good and evil.

The influence of secular culture has become so thorough that many do not even believe in the existence of good and evil. They consider all moral standards to be based on individual preferences or societal factors.

To discern good and evil, we must, as the Scripture says, be trained in the word of God. In order to wage spiritual warfare against the deception of Satan, we must know the truth, and know it with accuracy, precision, comprehensiveness, and be able to communicate and defend it. The study of logic helps us clarify and organize our thoughts. It helps us to understand the arguments others present to us, whether they are good or evil, right or wrong.

God has always regarded evil thoughts as sinful:

Paul also tell us that sin distorts the knowledge of God in our minds, which explains the lack of agreement in defining good and evil.

The LORD saw how great man's wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time. (Genesis 6:5)

Know that there is good, and that there is evil. These two are not the same, and God does not want us to confuse them. He wants us to be able to tell the difference between the two, and to be wise and possess deep insights concerning goodness, but he does not want us to be skillful regarding how to devise and accomplish evil. For such to occur, we must be knowledgeable with the word of God.

Their feet rush into sin; they are swift to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are evil thoughts; ruin and destruction mark their ways. (Isaiah 59:7)

In our culture, good is often persecuted as being close-minded and restricting, and evil is often approved as liberating, respectful, and tolerant.

The Christian should never compromise God's principles to conform to the world's concept of good and evil, since unbelievers pervert good judgment through their lusts and blatant defiance against God.

the evil desire for autonomy is so ingrained in fallen man's thinking that he insists that he has such freedom, and even asserts that the Bible acknowledges it.

The field is the world, and the good seed stands for the sons of the kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the evil one. (Matthew 13:38)

Let those who love the LORD hate evil, for he guards the lives of his faithful ones and delivers them from the hand of the wicked. (Psalm 97:10)

we are to hate both the evil people and their evil deeds.

God hates both the reprobate and his evil deeds, precisely because a person is the sum of his beliefs, thoughts, and actions.

The LORD detests the thoughts of the wicked, but those of the pure are pleasing to him" (Proverbs 15:26).

But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger. (Romans 2:8)

Something that is evil can never be called good, and something that is good can never be called evil.

Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.

Stop thinking that nuns are sweet and kind like Maria in The Sound of Music. That's just a movie. Think of the evil old bruja in 'Hansel and Gretal.

No creo en el diablo. Si Dios existe no puede tener rival. El infierno es nuestra ambición del mal.

Rumor, than which no evil flies more swiftly. She flourishes as she flies, gains strength by mere motion. Small at first and in fear, she soon rises to heaven, Walks upon land and hides her head in the clouds.

The Karma-Yogi is the man who understands that the highest ideal is non-resistance, and who also knows that this non-resistance is the highest manifestation of power in actual possession, and also what is called the resisting of evil is but a step on the way towards the manifestation of this highest

Kiddo—here's a problem. We've got witches, we've got Evil, we've got an orphan, and we've got a kidnapping. What's the deal?