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Quotes About Evil

I don't doubt that God can bring good out of tragedies, but the Bible is clear that God is not the author of evil!
~ Tony Campolo
If the Devil is real, then God must be real, too.
~ Jacob Vargas
It is not possible that a just God should forgive people who are wicked because another person who was good endured agony by being nailed to a cross.
~ Rebecca West
Satan hates God for His own sake, and everything that is dear to God he hates for the very reason that God loves it.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
The temptations of God were always more dangerous for mankind than those of Satan.
~ Arthur Koestler
If God were to remove all evil from our world (but somehow leave human beings on the planet), it would mean that the essence of 'humanness' would be destroyed. We would become robots.
~ Billy Graham
When we would think of God, how many things we find which turn us away from Him, and tempt us to think otherwise. All this is evil, yet it is innate.
~ Blaise Pascal
Honestly, for an evil god of darkness, he certainly can be dull.
~ Brandon Sanderson
The world was new each day for God so made it daily. Yet it contained within it all the evils as before, no more, no less.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Evil's just destructive? Then storms are evil, if it's that simple. And we have fire, and there there's hail. Underwriters lump it all under 'Acts of God.
~ Thomas Harris
If God wiped out all sources of evil in the world we would no longer be here, the evil is inside us.
~ Timothy Keller
Did the devil make the world while God was sleeping?
~ Tom Waits
Unfortunately, some Christians are guilty of throwing out an equivalent sentiment when they play the "God is sovereign" card as a way to trump every evil that comes your way.
~ Tullian Tchividjian
God became man, granted. The devil became a woman.
~ Victor Hugo
Evil can be condoned only if in the beyond it is compensated by good and god himself needs immortality to vindicate his ways to man.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Because we don't see the evil destroyed now and thus experience the suffering that evil inevitably inflicts, we are tempted to doubt God's existence and goodness.
~ William A. Dembski
However wickedness outstrips men, it has no wings to fly from God.
~ William Shakespeare
Watch for the devil. When there's a god, there's always a legion of devils.
~ Maggie Stiefvater
I call God long-suffering and patient precisely because He permits evil in the world. I know that He has no evil in Him and yet if there is evil, He is the author of it and yet untouched by it.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The Bible teaches us that God does not cause pain, but that He uses pain and evil to advance His cause and shape His servants.
~ Max Lucado
God may be the captain pilot of the universe, but it appears that the Devil is his co-pilot!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Just as I've always known there are monsters in the world, monsters and things even more evil, I've always known that it is God who keeps evil at bay.
~ Patricia Briggs
God, in the orthodox view, causes famine, plague, and flood. Was God evil? Evil is a convenient fiction.
~ Peter Straub
God won't let me into heaven because I'm too evil.
~ Phil Spector