Unfortunately, some Christians are guilty of throwing out an equivalent sentiment when they play the "God is sovereign" card as a way… — Tullian Tchividjian Copy Share Image
Take adultery or theft. Merely sins. It is evil who dines on the soul, stretching out its long bone tongue. It is… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Evil is powerful, but good is more powerful. In fact, evil is so powerful that only good has the power to overcome… — Jay E. Adams Copy Share Image
Just as water will conform to the shape of the vessel that contains it, so will a man follow the good and… — Imagawa Sadayo Copy Share Image
But a lie is a lie, and in itself intrinsically evil, whether it be told with good or bad intents. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The good of our present state is merely comparative, and the evil which every man feels will be sufficient to disturb and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If evil means to be self-motivated, to be the center of one’s own universe, to live on one’s own terms, then every… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
What we look upon as our greatest unhappiness in a difficulty we are involved in, may possibly be the evil hastening to… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
“Good and evil sometimes blur just like black and white, leaving us in the gray. It doesn’t matter if he’s going to… — S.L. Scott Copy Share Image
We try to bargain with God...I will follow you but don't touch my children, or my husband, don't give me cancer...We are… — Kay Warren Copy Share Image
“Ritually abusive groups also convince children that something evil has been put inside them. For example, a child is made to believe… — Alison Miller Copy Share Image
Everyone has the best of feelings towards mankind in general, but not towards the individual man. We'll kill men, but we want… — Karel Capek Copy Share Image
“Don’t be disheartened by the forces of evil. Nothing can happen that God hasn’t allowed. Even resistance is all part of grand… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
If your motives aren't clean, money itself becomes evil. But When we don't have money enough evil, the world tells us we're… — Todd McFarlane Copy Share Image
“We did an evil thing, father." "What do you think war is? We're men. Not boys swinging sticks at each other and… — Daniel Abraham Copy Share Image
There is a wheel within a wheel; a secret sacred wheel of Providence (most visible in marriages), guided by His hand that… — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
I've never known about anyone being helped by being told how wretched, miserable, sinful, and evil they are. — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
So, there I was, tied to an altar made from outdated encyclopedias, about to get sacrificed to the dark powers by a… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“I wonder,' said Frodo. 'It's my doom, I think, to go to that Shadow yonder, so that a way will be found.… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Preventives of evil are far better than remedies; cheaper and easier of application, and surer in result. — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
Evil…doesn’t mean doing things that have bad consequences for people. It means private thoughts and actions that are not to “the Christian… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
An evil deed is better left undone, for a man repents of it afterwards; a good deed is better done, for having… — Max Muller Copy Share Image
Since one cannot educate adults, the word "education" has an evil sound in politics; there is a pretense of education, when the… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Evil is evil. Big. Small. Grand. Petty. Well-justified or just because. There’s no lesser or greater of it. Choosing between them does… — C.T. Phipps Copy Share Image
It takes a man to make a devil; and the fittest man for such a purpose is a snarling, waspish, red-hot, fiery… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I know I shouldn't say this—I know it as surely as I know the earth is round and beats are evil—and yet… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
It was God who created hell as a place to store evil. He didn't do a good job of keeping it there… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
And he who must be a creator in good and evil: verily, he must be an annihilator first and demolish values. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Whomever the Lord has adopted and deemed worthy of His fellowship ought to prepare themselves for a hard, toilsome, and unquiet life,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse. Faith laughs… — Robert Cecil Copy Share Image
Seest thou good days? Prepare for evil times. No summer but hath its winter. He never reaped comfort in adversity that sowed… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the… — A. J. Muste Copy Share Image
We must make our world safer by rooting out the evil in our midst while still protecting the rights of people who… — Amy Klobuchar Copy Share Image
When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits… — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
If television viewing choices serve as a valid measure of our society, they who choose evil surely are more numerous than they… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
You almost felt sorry for the devil cause heaven knows he didn't have a prayer, when Mama prayed. — Randy Travis Copy Share Image
I don't buy into any of that hogwash. They put that out to sell tickets. It's just a classic horror movie, with… — Margot Kidder Copy Share Image
Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either. — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
By whomsoever no evil is done in deed, or word, or thought, him I call a Brahmin (holy man) who is guarded… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“Evil, unlike good, is constantly at war with those most like itself, and ambition is its spur.” — John Connolly Copy Share Image
