Quotes About Evil

Wherever God erects a house of prayer the Devil always builds a chapel there; And 't will be found, upon examination, the latter has the largest congregation.

God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.

In the Lord's Prayer, Jesus assumes that asking for forgiveness would be a daily occurrence, as would praying that we might be delivered from evil and led not into temptation.

True godliness doesn't turn us out of the world, but enables us to live better in it, and excites our endeavors to mend it... Christians should keep the helm and guide the vessel to its port; not meanly steal out at the stern of the world and leave those that are in it without a pilot to be driven by the fury of evil times upon the rock or sand of ruin.

God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials.

Perhaps evil is the crucible of goodness... and perhaps even Satan - Satan, in spite of himself - somehow serves to work out the will of God.

The demon is a liar. He will lie to confuse us; but he will also mix lies with the truth to attack us. His attack is psychological, Damien. And powerful.

More rooted in logic was the silence of God. In the world there was evil and much of it resulted from doubt, from an honest confusion among men of good will. Would a reasonable God refuse to end it? Not finally reveal Himself? Not speak? "Lord, give us a sign…" The raising of Lazarus was dim in the distant past. No one now living had heard his laughter. And so why not a sign?

But if all of the evil in the world makes you think that there might be a devil, Chris, how do you account for all the good?

More rooted in logic was the silence of God. In the world there was evil and much of it resulted from doubt, from an honest confusion among men of good will. Would a reasonable God refuse to end it? Not finally reveal Himself? Not speak?

And yet even from this—from evil—there will finally come good in some way; in some way that we may never understand or even see." Merrin paused. "Perhaps evil is the crucible of goodness," he brooded. "And perhaps even Satan—Satan, in spite of himself—somehow serves to work out the will of God.

Well, the Devil's something else. I could buy that; in fact, maybe I do. You know why? Because the creep keeps doing commercials.

Have you ever heard of exorcism, Mrs. MacNeil?

And perhaps even Satan—Satan, in spite of himself—somehow serves to work out the will of God.

But your daughter doesn't say she's a demon; she insists she's the devil himself...

Y, sin embargo, incluso de esto, del mal, vendrá el bien. De algún modo. De algún modo que nunca podremos entender, ni siquiera ver.

Y tal vez el propio Satán, a pesar de sí mismo, sirva de alguna manera para cumplir la voluntad de Dios.

In the world there was evil and much of it resulted from doubt, from an honest confusion among men of good will. Would a reasonable God refuse to end it? Not finally reveal Himself? Not speak?

Perhaps evil is the crucible of goodness," he brooded. "And perhaps even Satan—Satan, in spite of himself—somehow serves to work out the will of God." Merrin

The demon is a liar. He will lie to confuse us; but

Regan relinchando; luego se animaba la escena, y la cama se agitaba, era sacudida violentamente de un lado a otro, mientras Chris observaba, impotente, que su hija ponía los ojos en blanco y emitía un penetrante aullido de terror, que emergía de la base de su columna retorcida. Regan se arqueó y cayó inconsciente. Algo atroz abandonó la habitación.

As historian Gary Ferguson writes, "while livestock may be the kindling, the real fuel for the burn is that the federal government is behind the project. . . . Westerners couldn't buy a more perfect evil if they rode straight to hell with a saddlebag full of cash." Or, as one stockman said in 1989, "It's not so much the wolves we're afraid of, it's the wolf managers.

Courage exposes ambushes. Steadfastness destroys enemies. Keep your victories hidden. Do not sulk over defeat. Accept good. Bend before evil. Learn the rhythm which binds all men.

A writer lives, at least, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any feeling he has of the good or evil of the world lies a deeper one of wonder at it all. To transmit that feeling, he writes.