Wickedness Quotes

256 Wickedness quotes by 197 unique authors

Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me. — Jonah
True to form, many of the people who desire to frustrate God's purposes of giving mortal tabernacles to His spirit children through worldwide birth control… — Ezra Taft Benson
The core of original sin, then is LOT - Lack of Trust. Or, it could be considered an innate inability to adequately value ourselves. Label… — Robert H. Schuller
The wickedness of a loose or profane author is more atrocious than that of a giddy libertine or drunken ravisher, not only because it extends… — Samuel Johnson
Youth should stay away from all evil, especially things that produce wickedness and ill-will. — Aristotle
It is not difficult to avoid death. It is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death. — Socrates
The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature. Yet how can anyone speak of it… — Emma Goldman
But this is not difficult, O Athenians! to escape death; but it is much more difficult to avoid depravity, for it runs swifter than death.… — Plato
All the wickedness in the world begins with an act of forgetting. — Mark Buchanan
Very simply, the Spirit of Elijah is the Holy Ghost. The Spirit of Elijah will influence anyone who is involved in this work. That, for… — David A. Bednar
It's not the wickedness of the pagan that breaks my heart. It's the compromise of the Christian that grieves my soul. — R C Sproul
Just as a strongly flowing fountain is not blocked up by a handful of earth, so the compassion of the Creator is not overcome by… — Isaac of Nineveh
We ask for what reason our Lord was unwilling to state the time of His coming (cf. Mk. 13:31-32). If we ask it, we shall… — Ambrose
I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there. — Solomon
Religion is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it as I detest… — Thomas Paine
The ne plus ultra of wickedness is embodied in what is commonly presented to mankind as the creed of Christianity. — John Stuart Mill
[Judaism is] ever... mighty in wickedness... when it cursed Moses; when it hated God; when it vowed its sons to demons; when it killed the… — Hilary of Poitiers
There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds. — Seneca the Younger
Wickedness may prosper for awhile, but in the long run, he that sets all the knaves at work will pay them. — Roger L'Estrange
WITCH, n. (1) Any ugly and repulsive old woman, in a wicked league with the devil. (2) A beautiful and attractive young woman, in wickedness… — Ambrose Bierce
Ordinarily, God allows these things [i.e. evil suggestions and wickedness] to happen to free us from some hidden pride and to engender in us holy… — Vincent de Paul
. . . It is God's plan that those who are to help others spiritually fall into the temptations of mind and body by which… — Vincent de Paul
There are souls which, crab-like, crawl continually toward darkness, going back in life rather than advancing in it, using what experience they have to increase… — Victor Hugo
The effects of human wickedness are written on the page of history in characters of blood: but the impression soon fades away; so more blood… — Augustus William Hare
Pray to God for gladness. Be glad as children, as the birds of heaven. And let not the sin of men confound you in your… — Fyodor Dostoevsky

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