Quotes About Evil

wickedness does not promote rational thought. This is, in fact, a major message of the scriptures.

And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord [a respectful term used by Aaron to address his younger brother, Moses] wax hot [don't get mad at me]: thou knowest the people, that they are set on mischief [you know how prone these people are to do evil].

There is symbolism here. When we ignore God or cast Him out of our lives, spiritual darkness fills in where His light was. This darkness can be felt. In fact, no doubt you have literally "felt" evil, when you have approached it, considering participating in it, or while it was being practiced by others, or when approached by individuals and groups engaged in gross evil.

Some souls aren't worth saving, I thought. There're some souls that even the devil wants no part of.

Postmodernism is also simplistic in failing to see its own interpretation of the world (that all metanarratives are evil tools of oppression that must be deconstructed) as an alternative metanarrative.

if you operate in an unhealthy culture you risk becoming just as unhealthy yourself and – who knows – perhaps it is the will to please that leads people to crime just as often as evil or greed.

She suspected that she was quite like Helena Kraft in that she was capable and ambitious and wanted to get a pat on the back from her superiors. That was not necessarily always a good thing though. With that tendency, if you operate in an unhealthy culture you risk becoming just as unhealthy yourself and — who knows, perhaps it is the will to please that leads people to crime just as often as evil or greed.

perhaps it is the will to please that leads people to crime just as often as evil or greed.

Consider, for example, the title of a prominent book on the subject: The Mask of Masculinity: How Men Can Embrace Vulnerability, Create Strong Relationships, and Live Their Fullest Lives.22 Leftists cleverly have it both ways with this line of reasoning: men and women aren't that different biologically, but men are evil anyway.

Why does God allow evil in the world? To thicken the plot.

The Devil crept into Heaven, God overslept on the 7th, The New World Order was born on September 11.

Either God can do nothing to stop catastrophes like this, or he doesn't care to, or he doesn't exist. God is either impotent, evil, or imaginary. Take your pick, and choose wisely.

We comes from God, I from the Devil.

Even if we may not always understand why God allows certain things to happen to us, we can know He is able to bring good out of evil, and triumph out of suffering.

To be afraid is to have more faith in evil than in God.

What do we find God 'doing about' this business of sin and evil?...God did not abolish the fact of evil; He transformed it. He did not stop the Crucifixion; He rose from the dead.

To attribute to God, and not to self, whatever good one sees in oneself; but to recognize always that the evil is one's own doing, and to impute it on one's self.

Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.

The devil is more interesting than God.

Mercy imitates God and disappoints Satan.

It is ignorance or at least lack of consideration of heavenly things that make the temporal things of this world, whether good or evil, greater than they really are.

Since God is the highest good, he would not allow any evil to exist in his works unless his omnipotence and goodness were such as to bring good even out of evil.

I believe in God, and I certainly believe in the devil. There's certainly a devil, and he knows my name.

God knows that I detest slavery, but it is an existing evil ... and we must endure it and give it such protection as is guaranteed by the Constitution.