Quotes About Evil

To the Greeks, this was not spiritual progress; it was regress. Why would anyone want to come back to the material world, the realm of evil and corruption? The whole idea was utter foolishness to the Greeks (1 Cor. 1:23 KJV).

Though evil is still evil, the wonder is that God is greater and can turn it to good.

The Lord might work in mysterious ways he told himself, but human beings performed untold evils. - Dr. Christopher Logan

Demons are real. Since I'm not religious, I think of them as metaphors for the evil desires and impulses all humans have. A religious person can think of them as separate evil beings that can possess you. Either way, I believe they exist, lurking patiently around and in us, whispering their twisted points of view, ever alert for an opportunity. The sudden chink in your armor when you're tired, frightened, or angry. The invitation you issue in that moment of vulnerability.

The DEVIL we are fear is only one but appear in different forms.

I am Sailor Moon, champion of justice! On behalf of the moon, I will right wrongs and triumph over evil, and that means you! - sailor moon

Tú verías bondad en la cara del mismo Satán si llamara a tu puerta con una historia lastimera y el estómago vacío - ¿Y me equivocaría? ¿Si Satán necesitara alimento?

But Wishbone didn't know the whole story. He hadn't seen the ravaged bodies, the burning flesh. One minute friends laughed, full of life; next minute, destroyed. Those things never escaped one's mind. Once you witnessed that, you saw evil, and it didn't live in just Americans or Japanese. It lived close by, in friends, in neighbors, and, most frighteningly, inside yourself.

She had been brought up to believe in God. To believe in people. To believe that evil didn't really exist, that it was simply an absence of good, the way darkness is an absence of light.

this was the only answer she'd ever found to evil: to go on living and to help others live in happiness.

When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom.

Over the years, I have come to understand a critical difference between the world of fear and the world of freedom. In the former, the primary challenge is finding the strength to confront evil. In the latter, the primary challenge is finding the moral clarity to see evil.

Christianity agrees with Dualism that this universe is at war.

In dictatorships you need courage to fight evil; in the free world you need courage to see evil.

Permissiveness cannot sustain true liberty for long. . . . In Sodom they probably had absolute free speech, but nothing worth saying! On the other hand, an otherwise permissive society, which tolerates almost everything, usually will not tolerate speech that challenges its iniquity. Evil is always intolerantly preoccupied with its own perpetuation.

No hay razón para volverse introspectivo, haciendo de tus sentimientos un ídolo. Pídele al Espíritu Santo que te ayude a sacar a la luz y tomar el control de tus pensamientos. Ejercitemos la autoridad para romper el poder de los espíritus malignos.

Being a villain, it seems, provides a certain amount of indisputable clarity." -- Commander Invincible

The meaning of life has not much to do with good and evil, right and wrong, duty, honor, country, or any of that. It has to do with cutting the right deal.

Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord and turn away from evil. This will bring health to your body and strength to your bones.

it was harder than others to remember that evil was still front page news. Goodness and order were so much the norm they needn't be reported.

Evil, true evil, in her—and, more scientifically, her psychiatrist sister's—belief, fed on despair, the kind that suffocates every glimmer of light and life beneath a cold so intense it becomes darkness.

My definition of forgiveness is a sigh, very like a sigh of relief, on which the memory of evil is breathed out. With letting go of the memory, discontinuing the incessant replaying of pain, and instead feeling the unmitigated overness of the evil, the evildoer often looks quite different: flawed, like me, a child of God, like me. Forgiven, like me.

Hers was an evil-sounding chuckle that Anna loved. The sort of chortle Dorothy might have heard shortly before all hell broke loose in the land of Oz

Many evils spring from power," he said. "Even from the power to do good. All power corrupts, and the intention to do good has little influence on the corruption. Either my words will last after me and be believed by men, or else they won't. Yet if one thing were required to kill them certainly, it is that my words should be spread after my death by the power of money. No teaching could survive a campaign of paid advertising.