Quotes

Quotes about Evil


The tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil.

New Testament

Resist the Devil, and he will flee from you.

New Testament

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary, the Devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.

New Testament

The world, the flesh, and the devil.

Book of Common Prayer

Renounce the Devil and all his works.

Book of Common Prayer

If you get rid of evil you get rid of choice. You’ve got to have things to choose between, and that means good and evil. If you don’t choose, you’re not human anymore. You’re something else. Or you’re dead.

People always blame art literature drama for their own evil. Or other people’s. Art only imitates life.

That what you call evil is no more than ignorance of the way.

Perhaps the Cathars were right and the flesh and the devil were one

They were innocent, but we were all innocent then. We were living in the presence of evil and did not know it

Accept that man is imperfect, that good and evil exist, and you will not ... expect too much from him

Freedom has a lovely voice. Here is good, and there is evil - look on both, then take your choice

Not enough knowledge. Never enough. And out of ignorance, evil

There are times ... when drunkeness attacks the universe of the spirit. The balance of good and evil is very noticably distrubed, and while some fear the end of all things, others rejoice in the belief that a new age is coming

There is truly evil lying coiled in good; did not God create Lucifer and forknow the colour and heat of the light he was to bear?

There's a devil in all of us. We are full of self-contradictions

There's a devil in all of us. We are full of self-contradiction

Daughter can overcome power of evil. Son not.

The law became what it is - a bitter joke at which only the devil laughs

Why did God allow evil to exist? A question not to be asked. Without evil there could be no freedom of choice

The devil has his best chance among the ignorant, the deprived, the homeless, the jobless

That man does not properly understand the nature of sin, thanks to the blinding power of the devil, in no way mitigates the horror of the impact of sin on the pure radience of God

Brutality for its own sake is the mark of the devil

The devil's a real tough customer

It seemed to me that good and evil were probably as indefinable as right and wrong, and that the one reality was the electricity of opposition

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