Evil Quotes

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Therefore I begin to think, my Lord, you purposely allow us to be brought into contact with the bad and evil things that You want… — Hannah Hurnard
That government is not a necessary good but an unavoidable evil. — Lyn Nofziger
The state is concerned with the promotion of outward righteousness arising from the individual being constrained to keep the law. The Gospel alters human nature,… — Alister E. McGrath
God... has a pencil with an eraser on it and he has promised us that he will use it if we will repent and change… — Sterling W Sill
Evil doesn’t have to be an overt act; it can be merely the absence of good. If you have the ability, the resources, and the… — Yvon Chouinard
He who imitates what is evil always goes beyond the example that is set; on the contrary, he who imitates what is good always falls… — Francesco Guicciardini
A critic is a necessary evil, and criticism is an evil necessity. — Carolyn Wells
How could people like these, without words to put to their emotions and passions, manage? They could, at best, only suffer dumbly. Their pains and… — V.S. Naipaul
You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
It's not what people do that scares me. It's what they hide. It's the secrets that keep us from bonding and create distrust. If we… — Donald Miller
Gaffe-focused journalism: revenge of intelligent people who know true evils are out there but lack the access/time to get to them. — Alain de Botton
For, were it not good that evil things should also exist, the omnipotent God would almost certainly not allow evil to be, since beyond doubt… — Saint Augustine
Oh, that we could but convince men and women that murmuring spirit is a greater evil than any affliction, whatever the affliction! — Jeremiah Burroughs
The lesser of two evils is still evil. — Solomon
Out of evil comes good, however, and the confusion of tongues gave rise to 'the ancient practice of Masons conversing without the use of speech.' — Arthur E Waite
J. Edgar Hoover: When morals decline and good men do nothing, evil flourishes. A society unwilling to learn from past is doomed. We must never… — J. Edgar Hoover
Jesus' miracles provide us with a sample of the meaning of redemption: a freeing of creation from the shackles of sin and evil and a… — Randy Alcorn
A nominal Christian often discovers in suffering that his faith has been in his church, denomination, or family tradition, but not Christ. As he faces… — Randy Alcorn
Ya know, Hitler was this evil, evil man. But with the World Bank and Israel manipulating America, he might have been on to something... — Zach Braff
A lot of people say colonialism was 'evil' or whatever, but what have they really done with Africa since we gave it back to them?… — Zach Braff
The two great movers of the human mind are the desire of good and the fear of evil. — Amit Abraham
I have sworn to uphold and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and I will....I have come to peace with myself, my… — Timothy McVeigh
Among the myrtles the mantids moved, lightly, carefully, swaying slightly, the quintessence of evil. They were lank and green, with chinless faces and monstrous globular… — Gerald Durrell
In the twentieth century, men -- all of us -- find themselves compelled to commit or condone evil for the sake of preventing an evil… — Emil Fackenheim
The purely righteous do not complain of the dark, but increase the light; they do not complain of evil, but increase justice; they do not… — Abraham Isaac Kook

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