Quotes About Evil

To say that God permits evil in the world may not be pleasing to the ear. But if He is held responsible for the good, it follows that He has to be responsible for the evil too.

If 'everything happens for a reason,' then every act of evil is ultimately God's doing.

God Almighty would in no way permit evil in His works were He not so omnipotent and good that even out of evil He could work good.

One of the most evil dispositions possible is that which satirizes and turns everything to ridicule. God abhors this vice, and has sometimes punished it in a marked manner

God is the Creator; Satan is the counterfeiter.

God did not just overcome evil at the cross. He made evil serve the overcoming of evil. He made evil commit suicide in doing its worst evil.

But evil has been around since the Garden of Eden, and God's plan for victory was designed before the world began. The Bible tells us to fear no evil.

We asked for God's help; and now, in this shining outcome, in this magnificent triumph of good over evil, we should thank God.

God created the world, but it is the devil who keeps it going.

God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds.

Music is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God, to which Satan is a bitter enemy; for it removes from the heart the weight of sorrow, and the fascination of evil thoughts.

Only trust in God can transform doubts into certainty, evil into good, night into radiant dawn.

God's goodness is stronger than any evil!

As sure as God is good, so surely there is no such thing as necessary evil.

The Ventoux is a god of Evil, to which sacrifices must be made. It never forgives weakness and extracts an unfair tribute of suffering.

It has been said that people never do evil with more enthusiasm than when they do it in the name of God.

The devil is merely a fallen angel, and when God lost Satan he lost one of his best lieutenants.

Surely there is something in madness, even the demoniac, which Satan flees, aghast at his own handiwork, and which God looks on in pity.

God rules even where Satan seems to hold sway, because the latter exists only on God's sufferance.

Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself.

I believe in God and in nature and in the triumph of good over evil.

The difficulty is old, but none the less real. An omnipotent being who created a world containing evil not due to sin must Himself be at least partially evil.

Why can't God just defeat the devil and get rid of evil? It's the same reason the comic book character can't get rid of his nemesis; then there's no story.

The godly have some good in them, therefore the devil afflicts them; and some evil in them, therefore God afflicts them.