One of the great things about the Bible, one of the things I think keeps people coming back to it, is that… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
“My faith has been tempered in Hell. My faith has emerged from the flames of the crematoria, from the concrete of the… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
Lord, what a thoughtless wretch was I, To mourn, and murmur and repine, To see the wicked placed on high, In pride… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
Frequently what we say is rest is merely laziness. Our body requires respite and so does our mind and spirit. But a… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
Good deeds shun the light as anxiously as evil deeds: the latter fear that disclosure will bring on pain (as punishment), while… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“People who claim that they’re evil are usually no worse than the rest of us. It’s the people who claim that they’re… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“Professor Manley begins his first day of Uglification class by explaining why villains must be ugly to succeed. Ugliness releases you from… — Soman Chainani Copy Share Image
His face was in my neck and he was breathing hard. Was he grieving me? Already? Would he miss me? Had I,… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
I had learned to dwell with pleasure as a beloved daydream on the thought of the separation of these elements. If each… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
He answered, "The woman whom You gave to be with me" (Gen 3:9-12), he did not say, "the woman deceived me," but… — Dorotheus of Gaza Copy Share Image
People between twenty and forty are not sympathetic. The child has the capacity to do but it can't know. It only knows… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
On the whole, mental archaeology was a sordid digging proposition. The evil men did endured, the good was infinitely more ephemeral. You… — Helen Kieran Reilly Copy Share Image
Life has its pains and evils-its bitter disappointments; but like a good novel and in healthful length of days, there is infinite… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“Every culture is different--how they think, feel, love, hate, kill, worship, reason, or create. You want to see good and evil in… — Robert E. Keller Copy Share Image
The divine nature of this world involves for the human being the pure, absolute nature, the plenitude state of this world, because… — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
I suspect that here theists and atheists would agree: Human beings have within them the ability to choose evil or good. We… — Adam Hamilton Copy Share Image
“For an act to be evil, you must first perceive it, process and then conceive it as such. Then these acts are… — Dew Platt Copy Share Image
In all His acts God orders all things, whether good or evil, for the good of those who know Him and seek… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
By giving too much importance to fine actions one may end by paying an indirect but powerful tribute to evil, because in… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Suffering follows an evil thought as the wheels of a… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I don't think it's helpful to put them all in a box and say people are evil and freaks because they have… — Rebecca Hall Copy Share Image
The laws governing the universe can be made interesting and wonderful to the child, more interesting even that things in themselves, and… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
I'd slept with Ranger! Not sexually, of course. But I'd been in his bed. And then there was the evil shower gel.… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
“Evil is a word we use to describe the absence of Good, just as we use the word darkness to describe the… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
In my profession more generally, it's not an exaggeration to say that masculinity is viewed as the root of all evil. If… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
I'm not saying that I don't experience people in life as evil, but writing is not a place of alienation; writing is… — Etgar Keret Copy Share Image
Evil itself may be relentless. I will grant you that, but love is relentless too. Friendship is a relentless force. Family is… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
When I see big movies that are only about good versus evil, and the good guy wins, I only can think we're… — Gavin Hood Copy Share Image
There are guys who thrive completely on the action in the ring and see the promotion as a necessary evil, whereas I… — Mick Foley Copy Share Image
Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I have learned nothing in twenty years that would suggest that evil people can be rapidly influenced by any means other than… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
When an evil-doer, seeing you practise goodness, comes and maliciously insults you, you should patiently endure it and not feel angry with… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of… — Solomon Copy Share Image
“To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he’s doing is good, or else that it’s a… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“He was the devil in a Sunday hat; he dressed and acted like a civil man, but inside he was just hatred… — Mercy Cortez Copy Share Image
Many of us came away from our youth thinking that the story of the Revolution was that the Americans were patriots fighting… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
“The foundation of morality on the human sentiments of what is acceptable behavior versus repulsive behavior has always made morals susceptible to… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Walter had never liked cats. They'd seemed to him the sociopaths of the pet world, a species domesticated as an evil necessary… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
We must show new energy in fighting back an old evil. Nearly two centuries after the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade,… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
