Quotes About Wickedness

What is evil?' asked the Fiend

In the novel A Ghost, A Witch, and a Goblin by Scholastic Book Services, from Baba Yaga, a Russian witch story, the Good Aunt says to her niece, "Because you are so brave and so good, you will be stronger than all the wicked creatures you may meet.

The belief that wickedness is the province of monsters, not men, is consoling to those who are young. [Bram Stoker]

The war against the dragon is not, therefore, a war against a physical monster, like a dinosaur, but a battle against the wickedness we encounter in our everyday lives. We all face our daily dragons and we must all defend ourselves from them and hopefully slay them. The sobering reality is that we must either fight the dragons that we encounter in life or become dragons ourselves. There is no "comfortable" alternative.

The sacramental system of the Reformers flowed quite logically from their false idea of justification. If justification really consisted in a merely extrinsic appli cation of the merits of Jesus Christ, which cover the sin ner and hide his wickedness from the sight of God, and if faith were the only thing whereby man is justified, 2

Good preachers don't preach about God and heaven, and things like that. They always preach against something, like hell and the devil. Them is things to be against. It wouldn't do a preacher no good to preach for God. He's got to preach against the devil and all wicked and sinful things. That's what the people like to hear about. They want to hear about the bad things.

The mouth of a good person is a deep, life-giving well, but the mouth of the wicked is a dark cave of abuse.

So much of the time it is not complacency that threatens but its opposite, impetuosity. We see something that is wrong, whether in the world or in the church, and we fly into action, righting the wrong, confronting sin and wickedness, battling the enemy, and then we go out vigorously recruiting "Christian soldiers".

All the time spent idly, is spent wickedly, and is unfaithfulness to our masters.

The wickedness of the world is so great, you have to keep running so your legs won't be stolen from under you!

For the wickedness of the world is so great you have to run your legs off in order to avoid having them stolen from under you.

Most of us rather like our cats to have a streak of wickedness. I should not feel quite easy in the company of any cat that walked about the house with a saintly expression.

Most men are wicked.

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.

WITCH, n. (1) An ugly and repulsive old woman, in a wicked league with the devil. (2) A beautiful and attractive young woman, in wickedness a league beyond the devil.

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Children are wickeder than adults, they have no sense of restraint.

It is very difficult to make one's way in this world without being wicked at one time or another, when the world's way is so wicked to begin with.

One never learns how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her-is it ever the right choice?

I know this: The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness, she said.

The colossal might of wickedness, he thought: how we love to locate it massively elsewhere. But so much of it comes down to what each one of us does between breakfast and bedtime.

To the grim poor there need be no pourquoi tale about where evil arises; it just arises; it always is. One never learns how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her--is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil...?

a maldade dos homens é que seu poder cultiva a estupidez e a cegueira.

The wickedness of men is that their power breeds stupidity and blindness