Wickedness Quotes
256 Wickedness quotes by 197 unique authors
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There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.
— Sophocles
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... although many people say it is a terrible onus to be labeled bad as a child, I thought that the opposite must be worse:…
— Paula Sharp
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I testify that wickedness is rapidly expanding in every segment of our society. It is more highly organized, more cleverly disguised, and more powerfully promoted…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Fishing is the chance to wash one's soul with pure air. It brings meekness and inspiration, reduces our egoism, soothes our troubles and shames our…
— Herbert Hoover
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Real joy and happiness come from living in such a way that our Heavenly Father will be pleased with us. ... One cannot break God's…
— W. Eugene Hansen
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God is punishing me for my past wickedness by keeping me alive and in as much pain as he can.
— Ginger Baker
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A man who piously shuts himself up to meditate upon the sin of wickedness and to keep it fresh in his mind joins a brotherhood…
— Ambrose Bierce
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The curious crime, the fine Felicity and flower of wickedness.
— Robert Browning
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Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! Every fool, from king to policeman, from the flatheaded parson to the visionless…
— Emma Goldman
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Every time you have with your mouth said well of godliness, and yet gone on in wickedness; or every time you have condemned sin in…
— John Bunyan
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But all the wickedness in the world which man may do or think is no more to the mercy of God than a live coal…
— William Langland
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Jews are responsible for the majority of the wickedness in the world.
— Professor Griff
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God sees with utter clarity who we are. He is undeceived as to our warts and wickedness. But when God looks at us that is…
— John Ortberg
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We're living in an unprecedented day (when) evil is no longer evil. We've changed the terminology-- iniquity is now infirmity; wickedness is now weakness; devilry…
— Leonard Ravenhill
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Combinations of wickedness would overwhelm the world, by the advantage which licentious principles afford, did not those who have long practised perfidy grow faithless to…
— Samuel Johnson
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In the Israelite encampment, even though there were iniquities, sins, and wickedness, God did not see any of them because the blood of bulls and…
— Joseph Prince
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A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith; spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism; and moral relativism, taken…
— Conrad Black
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How great, therefore, the wickedness of human nature is! How many girls there are who prevent conception and kill and expel tender fetuses, although procreation…
— Martin Luther
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The Conspiracy Theory of Society... [is] a typical result of the secularization of a religious superstition. The belief in the Homeric gods whose conspiracies explain…
— Karl Popper
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So enormous, so dreadful, so irremediable did the [slave] trade's wickedness appear that my own mind was completely made up for abolition. Let the consequences…
— William Wilberforce
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I have never seen one who really loves goodness or one who really hates wickedness. One who really loves goodness will not place anything above…
— Confucius
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We desperately need to understand something of the magnitude of sin, of evil, and of gross wickedness in this world if we are to appreciate…
— Dave Hunt
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When my children hear godliness out of my mouth and they see wickedness in my life, then I point them to heaven and I lead…
— Alistair Begg
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Call it no more free-will, but slavish lust; free to evil, but free from good, till regenerating grace loosens the bands of wickedness.
— Thomas Boston
Who Wrote These Wickedness Quotes
197 authors contributed a total of 256 Wickedness Quotes, led by these top contributors: