Quotes about evil
evil suffering doe
This is the love that does all things; that brings to pass even the evils we suffer; so shaping them that they are but instruments of preparing the good which, as yet, has not arrived. Francois Fenelon
evil gossip rumor
Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around. Frank A. Clark
evil wish
And the evil wish is most evil to the wisher. Hesiod
evil doe mischief
An evil plan does mischief to the planner.
evil woe recoil
He for himself weaves woe who weaves for others woe, and evil counsel on the counselor recoils.
evil gains disaster
Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster
evil world facts
The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough. Heinrich Heine
evil tolerance religion
Be entirely tolerant or not at all; follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess.
evil disease hunger
It is by disease that health is pleasant; by evil that good is pleasant; by hunger, satiety; by weariness, rest. Heraclitus
evil giving people
Whenever education and refinement carry us away from the common people, they are growing towards selfishness, which is the monster evil of the world. That is true cultivation which gives us sympathy with every form of human life, and enables us to work most successfully for its advancement. Refinement that carries us away from our fellow people is not God's refinement. Henry Ward Beecher
evil flavor world
It is a bitter thought to an avaricious spirit that by and by all these accumulations must be left behind. We can only carry away from this world the flavor of our good or evil deeds.
evil speak feels
If there is any person to whom you feel a dislike, that is the person of whom you ought never to speak.
evil good-evil unbelief
Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse.
evil firsts survived
The presence of evil was something to be first recognized, then dealt with, survived, outwitted, triumphed over. Toni Morrison
evil used worst
Even the best things ill used become evils; and, contrarily, the worst things used well prove good. Joseph Hall
evil unity neutrality
Neutrality in things good or evil is both odious and prejudicial; but in matters of an indifferent nature is safe and commendable. Herein taking of parts maketh sides, and breaketh unity. In an unjust cause of separation, he that favoreth both parts may perhaps have least love of either side, but hath most charity in himself.
evil childhood darkness
How deep and sticky is the darkness of childhood, how rigid the blades of infant evil, which is unadulterated, unrestrained by the convenient cushions of age and its civilizing anesthesia. Katherine Dunn
evil dull worst
Evil is dull, that is the worst of it ... Katherine Anne Porter
evil-within people looks
There is good and evil within all of us, and I enjoy searching to bring that out through my music. I like it that there are questions brought out by my music. People must look inside themselves for the answers Marilyn Manson
evil christianity harmony
Our proportionate admission of the claims of good or of evil determines the harmony of our existence, - our health, our longevity, and our Christianity. Mary Baker Eddy
evil may cups
Take the good with the evil, for ye all are pensioners of God, and none may choose or refuse the cup His wisdom mixeth. Martin Farquhar Tupper
evil half littles
Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil? Marquis de Sade
evil lessons way
Evil cannot be overcome by more evil. Evil can only be overcome by good. It is the lesson of the way of love. Peace Pilgrim
evil hatred messages
Overcome evil with good, falsehood with truth, and hatred with love. The message isn't new, but we haven't learned to live it yet.
evil suffering world
The evil and suffering in this world are greater than any of us can comprehend. But evil and suffering are not ultimate. God is. Satan, the great lover of evil and suffering, is not sovereign. God is. John Piper
evil way ends
Many have puzzled themselves about the origin of evil. I am content to observe that there is evil, and that there is a way to escape from it, and with this I begin and end. John Newton
evil imperfection grace
I am not what I ought to be. Ah! How imperfect and deficient! I am not what I wish to be. I abhor what is evil, and I would cleave to what is good. I am not what I hope to be. Soon, soon, I shall put off mortality, and with mortality all sin and imperfection. Yet, though I am not what I ought to be, nor what I wish to be, nor what I hope to be, I can truly say, I am not what I once was—a slave to sin and Satan. And I can heartily join with the apostle, and acknowledge, ‘By the grace of God, I am what I am.’
evil darkness clumsiness
Of all the things that oppress me, this sense of the evil working of nature herself -my disgust at her barbarity -clumsiness -darkness -bitter mockery of herself -is the most desolating. John Ruskin
evil stories novel
We only have one story. All novels, all poetry are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil. John Steinbeck
evil world magnificence
There are monstrous changes taking place in the world, forces shaping a future whose face we do not know. Some of these forces seem evil to us, perhaps not in themselves but because their tendency is to eliminate other things we hold good.
evil avalanches pebbles
Avalanches of evil begin with a single pebble of sin.
evil world needs
We do need to confront evil in this world, but we do need to work with the other nation. Martin O'Malley
evil overcoming anticipation
...Hope endures and overcomes misfortune and evil. Martin Luther