Affection Quote by Henry Clarence Thiessen

Man in his raw, natural state as he comes from the womb is morally and spiritually corrupt in disposition and character. Every part of…

— Robert L. Reymond

“The tendency of a person to allow himself to be degraded, robbed, deceived, and exploited might be the diffidence of a God among men.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The root of all evil: that the slavish morality of meekness, chastity, selflessness, absolute obedience, has triumphed — ruling natures were thus condemned (1)…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

An sacrificing things makes human as Deity and greediness make it devilish

— Mak_786

“There is a passion and drive for cruel deeds which only the awe and fear of God can soothe; there is a suffocating selfishness…

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Man's natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil.

— Ernest Becker

“In this primal sense, then, evil is evil because it is rebellion against God. Evil is the failure to do what God demands or…

— D. A. Carson

Someone who is perennially surprised that depravity exists, who continues to feel disillusioned (even incredulous) when confronted with evidence of what humans are capable…

— Susan Sontag

“any allegiance to a deity or concept or universal principle which put obedience above decent behavior toward an innocent human being was evil. —”

— Dan Simmons

I think it's the tendency to want to create gods and monotheistic absolutes and absolute certainties that is the continual temptation in human thought…

— Tony Harrison

“Clearly, the Fall was not just an isolated act of disobedience that could be quickly mended. Every part of God's good handiwork was marred…

— Charles W. Colson

Humility and suffering free a man from all sin; for the first cuts out spiritual passions, and the latter bodily.

— Maximus the Confessor