Evil Quotes - Page 197

Evil is real - but so is God's power and love.

You either fight active evil or you accept it. Doing nothing is acceptance. There is no in-between.

Why can't God just defeat the devil and get rid of evil? It's the same reason the comic book character can't get rid of his nemesis; then there's no story.

When my son was murdered people asked me how I felt about God and what had happened to my son. I said "no, you can't go there. You have to understand that there is a devil and he works 24/7. Whoever murdered our son was with the devil."

Sold my soul. Bought these devil chains.

One eminently orthodox Catholic divine laid it down that a confessor may fondle a nun's breasts, provided he does it without evil intent.

The difficulty is old, but none the less real. An omnipotent being who created a world containing evil not due to sin must Himself be at least partially evil.

Evil, as evil, can never be chosen; and though evil is often the effect of our own choice, yet we never desire it but under the appearance of an imaginary good.

The woman in you is the worry in me.

If the ministers of the Church have often permitted nations to revolt for Heaven's cause, they never allowed them to revolt against real evils or known violencess. It is from Heaven that the chains have come to fetter the minds of mortals.

Speak no evil, that thou mayest not hear it spoken unto thee, and magnify not the faults of others that thine own faults may not appear great.

There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil.

The truly and deliberately evil men are a very small minority; it is the appeaser who unleashes them on mankind.

Shame is the turnkey that keeps our evil desires in jail.

Where there is a choice of two evils, most men take both.

One thing the Devil fears the most is the Church that obeys and goes not just sits and talks.

All pantheism must ultimately be shipwrecked on the inescapable demands of ethics, and then on the evil and suffering of the world. If the world is a theophany , then everything done by man, and even by animal, is equally divine and excellent; nothing can be more censurable and nothing more praiseworthy than anything else; hence there is no ethics.

Evil is only imperfection, that which is not complete, which is becoming, but has not yet found its end.

We're not all evil or all good, and we all make mistakes to one degree or another.

But even in a telephone booth evil can seep out of the receiver and we must cover it with a mattress, and then tear it from its roots and bury it, bury it.

You don't trade in the devil you know for the one you don't know.

It was the kind of terrified look that reminds you that no matter how rational or grown up a person might seem, some part of him is absolutely sure - knows - that an evil other-world exists just outside of our regular, everyday world. And that although we don't expect that world to collide with our calm, predictable one...well, really, at any moment that is exactly what might happen.

I want to make my own discoveries…….penetrate the evil which attracts me

I have no fear of God, and yet fear keeps me awake at night,fear of the devil. And if I believe in the devil, I must believe in God. And if evil is abhorrent to me, I must be a saint. Henry, save me from beatification, from the horrors of static perfection. Precipitate me into the inferno.

The key question isn't 'What is Evil?' The key question is 'When does the Good become Evil?