Evil Quotes - Page 108

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.

Evil person causes harm even if treated will.

In many ways, the church seems to hate evil more than it loves good or even God.

The answer to the problem of evil does not lie in trying to establish its point of origin, for that is simply not revealed to us. Rather, in the moment of the cross, it becomes clear that evil is utterly subverted for good.... If God can take the greatest of evils and turn them for the greatest of goods, then how much more can he take the lesser evils which litter human history, from individual tragedies to international disasters, and turn them to his good purpose as well.

Length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery.

Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.

History buffs probably noted the reunion at a Washington party a few weeks ago of three ex-presidents: Carter, Ford and Nixon - See No Evil, Hear No Evil and Evil.

We sometimes learn more from the sight of evil than from an example of good; and it is well to accustom ourselves to profit by the evil which is so common, while that which is good is so rare.

Evil people you never forget them. And that's the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.

The canter is a cure for every evil.

War is always a matter of doing evil in the hope that good may come of it.

What I want you to understand, is the full evil of those who claim to have become convinced that this earth, by its nature, is a realm of malevolence where the good has no chance to win. Let them check their premises. Let them check their standards of value. Let them check - before they grant themselves the unspeakable license of evil-as-necessity - whether they know what is the good and what are the conditions it requires.

Evil requires the sanction of the victim.

Those who won't accept evil never get anything good.

To be alone is the fate of all great minds—a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.

...a distorted development of autonomy is the root cause of the pathological and, ultimately, evil element in human beings.

Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves

In all modern history, interference with science in the supposed interest of religion, no matter how conscientious such interference may have been, has resulted in the direst evils both to religion and to science, and invariably; and, on the other hand, all untrammelled scientific investigation, no matter how dangerous to religion some of its stages may have seemed for the time to be, has invariably resulted in the highest good both of religion and of science.

The holy have done more damage to this world than the devil ever could.

I hate dealing with the press. But I think it is a necessary evil.

CALLOUS, adj. Gifted with great fortitude to bear the evils afflicting another.

When God makes a beautiful woman, the devil opens a new register.

If [the devil has] brought you down, make sure that with Christ’s enabling you stand back up.

It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scenes and objects and whoever heard of a place haunted by a noble deed, or of beautiful and lovely ghosts revisiting the glimpses of the moon?