Christian Quote by John of Kronstadt

“I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn't find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest substance – You…

— St. Augustine of Hippo

As all our wickedness consists in turning away from our Creator, so all our goodness consists in uniting ourselves with Him.

— Alphonsus Liguori

I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn't find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest substance - You,…

— Saint Augustine

“Whoever understands shall turn from wickedness.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Wickedness is weakness.

— Anonymous

God’s power rests not on totalizing omnipotence, but on His ability to alchemize suffering, tragedy, and loss into wisdom, understanding, and joy.

— Anonymous

“Nothing but vast wisdom and onlimited power should dare sweep men off in multitudes,' he added; 'for it is only the one that can…

— James Fenimore Cooper

God stands in no need of our strength or wisdom, but of our ignorance, of our weakness; let us but give these to Him,…

— Dwight L. Moody

“We are accordingly urged by our own evil things to consider the good things of God; and, indeed, we cannot aspire to Him in…

— John Calvin

Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation.

— Plutarch

There is no greater punishment of wickedness that that it is dissatisfied with itself and its deeds.

— Seneca the Younger

As the wicked are hurt by the best things, so the godly are bettered by the worst.

— William Jenkyn