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Quotes About Corruption

Within each of us exists the image of God, however disfigured and corrupted by sin it may presently be. God is able to recover this image through grace as we are conformed to Christ.
~ Alister E. McGrath
You are a den of vipers and thieves. I intend to rout you out, and by the eternal God, I will rout you out.
~ Andrew Jackson
An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight.
~ Hilaire Belloc
Through pride the devil became the devil. Pride leads to every vice, it's the complete anti-God state of mind.
~ C. S. Lewis
Sin defies God, utterly corrupts each individual, corrodes all social relationships, and issues in death.
~ D. A. Carson
The temple of truth has never suffered so much from woodpeckers on the outside as from termites within.
~ Vance Havner, Pepper N Salt
If there are atheists, who is to be blamed if not the mercenary tyrants of souls who, in revolting us against their swindles, compel some feeble spirits to deny the God whom these monsters dishonour?
~ Voltaire
Homosexuality is Satan's diabolical attack upon the family that will not only have a corrupting influence upon our next generation, but it will also bring down the wrath of God upon America.
~ Jerry Falwell
Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed this His universe to go.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
Politicians are like God. No one believes in them, they haven't done anything for ages, and they give jobs to their immediate family
~ Andy Zaltzman
We corrupt the Word of God most dangerously, when we throw any doubt on the plenary inspiration of any part of Holy Scripture.
~ J. C. Ryle
There are two infinities in this world: God up above, and down below, human baseness.
~ Jules de Goncourt
For me, the single word "God" suggests everything that is slippery, shady, squalid, foul, and grotesque.
~ Andre Breton
Religions become corrupted when leaders are assigned to explain God's will to people instead of showing them how to find this direction within themselves.
~ James Redfield
On all things created remaineth the half-effaced signature of God, Somewhat of fair and good, though blotted by the finger of corruption.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
I promise, before God and my community, to seek reforms so that the powerful and corrupt are no longer above the law.
~ Andrew Thomas
While police officers who blatantly shaft the common people believe that they are God, they are the Devil to those that they wrong.
~ Steven Magee
There's good and evil going on. We have cops. We have robbers.
~ Joe Mantegna
If bribery is good enough for Congress, it's good enough for me.
~ Eddie Griffin
By gold all good faith has been banished; by gold our rights are abused; the law itself is influenced by gold, and soon there will be an end of every modest restraint.
~ Propertius
Sin corrupts even our good deeds. We injure our shoulder trying to pat ourselves on the back.
~ D. A. Carson
Human beings as a whole cannot be good for long before the bad creeps back in and poisons us again.
~ Veronica Roth
The corrupt, when found out, become especially good moralists.
~ Robert Payne