Evil Passions Quotes
- Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made… — Thomas a Kempis
- Ideas and principles that do harm are as a rule, though not always, cloaks for evil passions. — Bertrand Russell
- I find afflictions to be good for me. I have always found them so. Afflictions are happy means in the hands of the Holy Spirit… — Joseph Williams
- To a chemist, nothing on earth is unclean. A writer must be as objective as a chemist; he must abandon the subjective line; he must… — Anton Chekhov
- Whoever takes it upon himself to establish a commonwealth and prescribe laws must presuppose all men naturally bad, and that they will yield to their… — Niccolo Machiavelli
- Independent of its connection with human destiny hereafter, the fate of republican government is indissolubly bound up with the fate of the Christian religion, and… — Lewis Cass
- There is one antidote for evil passions: the purification of our souls which takes place through the mystery of godliness. The chief act of faith… — Gregory of Nyssa