Second, if you disbelieve in the reality of good and evil spirit agents, you fundamentally change the narrative of Scripture. The motif… — Gregory A. Boyd Copy Share Image
In all determinations of morality, this circumstance of public utility is ever principally in view; and wherever disputes arise, either in philosophy… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The most important thing in all this world is that I know that I existed in the preexistence as a spirit child… — Rex D. Pinegar Copy Share Image
“Giudizio Universale, the Last Judgment. In the Christian tradition, this is when Jesus returns to earth to discern between right and wrong,… — Benjamin Blech Copy Share Image
“The intellectual climate of the 1970s, for which the 1950s had already paved the way, contributed to this. A theory was even… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“Experience day by day protested and showed by infinite examples, that good and evil fortunes fall to the lot of pious and… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
“The disciples of the Baal Shem Tov, the founder of Hasidism, tell of a dream he had. In the dream, the very… — Harold Schulweis Copy Share Image
In reality, good and evil do not exist, because Divine Providence created nothing that is bad and disharmonious; this is only a… — Franz Bardon Copy Share Image
“In discourse more sweet (For Eloquence the Soul, Song charms the Sense) Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more… — John Milton Copy Share Image
A single assembly will never be a steady guardian of the laws, if Machiavel is right, when he says, Men are never… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Above all, creators remain drawn to the age-old paradoxes that philosophy grapples with [and]...that art occasionally resolves...the problem of the one and… — Frank Barron Copy Share Image
Being desirable means being comfortable with your own ambiguity. The most ambiguous reality is that we are flesh and spirit at the… — Rumi Copy Share Image
“We give them different names, those nights lit only by fire and the moon, depending on the country and the calendar, but… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
Faeries are fallen angels," said Dorothea, "cast down out of heaven for their pride." "That's the legend," Jace said. "It's also said… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“The notion of a natural propensity for vice is essential to Sadeian psychology; vice is innate, as is virtue, if social conditions… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“It [Communism] is not new. It is, in fact, man's second oldest faith. Its promise was whispered in the first days of… — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
“For the man in the street, the philosophies of opposites, particularly Good and Evil, have served as a torture chamber, a crucifix… — Christopher S. Hyatt Copy Share Image
There are only shades of gray. Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“Not at all," persisted Chalmers, unaware that Shea was trying to shush him. "The people of the country have agreed to call… — L. Sprague de Camp Copy Share Image
In this life we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
“By definition, a human being is endowed with free will. He can use this to choose between good and evil. If he… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“Matter would have the universe a uniform dispersion, motionless, complete. Spirit would have an earth, a heaven and a hell, whirl and… — Allen Wheelis Copy Share Image
“At this stage of the game, I don’t have the time for patience and tolerance. Ten years ago, even five years ago,… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
“The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty. The more indifferent people are… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Most people don’t “choose” fiery tempers or alcoholic binges or torturing prisoners of war or exploiting Third-World workers or dumping toxic chemicals… — Russell D. Moore Copy Share Image
“Rev. [Martin Luther] King continued, chanting, singing his prophetic litany. We were one people, indivisible in the sight of God, responsible to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“In the deeps are the violence and terror of which psychology has warned us. But if you ride these monsters deeper down,… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“But for a younger generation of conservative operatives who would soon rise to power... They were true believers who meant what they… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Whenever a Taker couple talk about how wonderful it would be to have a big family, they're reenacting this scene behind the… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
Man has reason, discrimination and free-will such as it is. The brute has no such thing. It is not a free agent,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
In every well-written play the battle rages between the primary powers of Good and Evil, and it is this battle which constitutes… — Michael Chekhov Copy Share Image
“To speak evil' is to speak this fateful, paradoxical situation that is the reversible concatenation of good and evil. That is to… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
“All conscious nature has experiences of pleasure and pain. Man alone can deliberately will the repetition of an experience. And repetition, experienced… — Owen Barfield Copy Share Image
I was modest--they accused me of being crafty: I became secretive. I felt deeply good and evil--nobody caressed me, everybody offended me:… — Mikhail Lermontov Copy Share Image
Some people misunderstand evil and believe it will relent, and because their misplaced hope inspires dark hearts to dream darker dreams, they… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“Now, get your head right and get out of that bed Danny boy. There is a war going on between good and… — Truant D. Memphis Copy Share Image
“Have you been travelling, my young friend? Come in out of the darkness and rain. Sit by the fire, eat, drink and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Humans are caught -- in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Simple,' Tummeler replied.' Blueberries is one of the great forces o'good in the world.' How do you figure that?' said Charles. Well,'… — James A. Owen Copy Share Image
“The aristocratic interiority is centered on the higher mind, the mens, the ajna chakra, the seat of intellect and intuition that commands… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image