Quotes About Wickedness

God bears long with the wicked notwithstanding the multitude of their sin, and shall we desire to be revenged because of a single injury?

If thou be righteous, what givest thou Him? Or what receiveth He of thine hand? thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man" (Job 35:7-8), but it certainly cannot affect God, who is all-blessed in Himself. "When ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants" (Luk 17:10)—our obedience has profited God nothing.

What has just been pointed out reveals a principle which is of great practical value for our own souls today. The further Israel's religious apostasy advanced and wickedness increased, the more were the godly handful among them taught to look away from the present to the future, to walk by faith and not by sight, to regale their desponding hearts with those covenant blessings which the Messiah would obtain for all His people.

Nada hay más despreciable, ni peligroso, que un malvado que cada noche se va a dormir con la conciencia tranquila

nada hay más despreciable, ni peligroso, que un malvado que cada noche se va a dormir con la conciencia tranquila. Muy malo es eso. En especial, cuando viene parejo con la ignorancia, la superstición, la estupidez o el poder; que a menudo se dan juntos.

Terrorism, as the word is presently used, is a condition of ideological wickedness, stripped of any rational or legitimate context or motivation, and associated culturally with Islam and racially with Muslims.

Between the wicked and the snake, the snake is less evil because it stings once while the wicked stings on every step.

You can't get any more evil than Iago or Richard III. Those guys are bad.

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And I've never been wicked,' said the Witch firmly. 'Least, not by my measure. Just independant-minded.' 'Wickedness depends on where you're standing, doesn't it?' said Jenny.

You will be the happiest of women. And we will sing, all by ourselves, till we swoon away with delight. You are crying! You are afraid of me! And yet I am not really wicked. Love me and you shall see! All I wanted was to be loved for myself.

Look well that you unto no vice assent, lest you be damned for your evil intent. For she who does so is a traitor, certainly. And take heed of what I shall say: of all the treasons, the greatest wickedness is the betrayal of innocence.

Now malice is of two kinds; that is to say, hardness of heart in wickedness, or else the flesh of a man is so blind that he does not see that he is in Sin, or he cares not that he is in Sin, which is the hardness of the Devil. The other kind of malice is when a man wars against truth, when he knows that it is the truth.

Wickedness also resides in the gaze that perceives itself as innocent and surrounded by wickedness.

You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could.

Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give.

Morality can go to its father the devil.

You will be welcome in hell, Senora. Hell is the home of honor, duty, justice, and the rest of the seven deadly virtues. All the wickedness on earth is done in their name: where else but in hell should they have their reward? Have I not told you that the truly damned are those who are happy in hell?

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

Ah, Iddio non paga il Sabatol ('God does not pay on a Saturday')—the wages of men's sins often linger in their payment, and I myself saw much established wickedness of long-standing prosperity.

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by interest, and palliated by all the artifices of self-deceit, gives us time to form distinctions in our own favor,

Is it not strange, that Love borders so much upon Hate? But this wicked Love is not like the true virtuous Love, to be sure: That and Hatred must be as far off, as Light and Darkness. And how must this Hate have been increased, if he had met with a base Compliance, after his wicked Will had been gratify'd?

If being horrible was a mortal condition, then this whole world would be a grave.