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Quotes About Evil

The Spirit of God is as destructive of evil as it is creative of good.
~ John G. Lake
The devil is God's ape!
~ Martin Luther
God himself would not permit evil in this world if good did not come of it for the benefit and harmony of the universe.
~ Thomas Aquinas
It is one thing to fear God as threatening, with a holy reverence, and another to be afraid of the evil threatened.
~ John Owen
God is punishing America for the way they have persecuted us at Westboro Baptist Church, and worse and more of [the Virginia Tech massacre] is coming and this evil sodomite nation is doomed.
~ Fred Phelps
The God of the Old Testament is the depiction of evil.
~ Joni Mitchell
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
~ Saint Augustine
Around us there is the presence of evil. The devil is at work. But in a loud voice I say: GOD IS STRONGER.
~ Pope Francis
We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.
~ Anatole France
Everything good is the transmutation of something evil: every god has a devil for a father.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
There is no such thing as low-cost Christianity. Following Jesus means swimming against the tide, renouncing evil and selfishness
~ Pope Francis
God's holiness, then, is not only the opposite of evil; it is the measure by which we know evil to be evil.
~ David F. Wells
It used to be widely held that evil was incompatible with the existence of God: that no possible world contained both God and evil. So far as I am able tell, this thesis is no longer defended
~ Peter van Inwagen
It was necessary that the Devil should have a representation upon the Earth, as well as God.
~ Warren Jeffs
Faith is, necessary to explain anything, and to reconcile the foreknowledge of God with human evil.
~ William Wordsworth
All those evil doctrines about God that work misery and madness have their origin in the brains of the wise and prudent, not in the hearts of children.
~ George MacDonald
... even the devil works for God.
~ Judy Collins
I think God gives medication that heals some illnesses. But I think when you deny the reality of evil, you want to use medicine to solve every problem, and it doesn't solve every problem.
~ Robert Jeffress
Then there is the way that was taught two thousand years ago - of overcoming evil with good, which is my way, the way Jesus taught. Never loose faith: God's way is bound to prevail in the end.
~ Peace Pilgrim
I don't know if I believe in God, but I know I believe in the devil. I have met him.
~ Rumer Godden
The prayers of God's saints strengthen the unborn generation against the desolating waves of sin and evil.
~ Edward McKendree Bounds
In many ways, the church seems to hate evil more than it loves good or even God.
~ Carlton Pearson
Children, Fear God; that is to say, have an holy awe upon your minds to avoid that which is evil, and a strict care to embrace and do that which is good.
~ William Penn
Lucifer, oh Lucifer, God of evil, you're the god of pain, the darkness is where you find your light.
~ Ludacris