Lydia M. Child Quotes About Evil

Quotes about: Evil

• The existence of very pious feelings, in conjunction with intolerance, cruelty, and selfish policy, has never ceased to surprise and perplex those who have viewed it calmly from a distance. ... It is impossible to exaggerate the evil work theology has done in the world. What destruction of the beautiful monuments of past ages, what waste of life, what disturbance of domestic and social happiness, what perverted feelings, what blighted hearts, have always marked its baneful progress!

  Lydia M. Child

  Beautiful, Selfish, Distance

• It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means.

  Lydia M. Child

  Spiritual, Philosophy, Mistake

• There have always been a large class of thinkers who deny that the world makes any progress. They say we move in a circle; that evils are never conquered, but only change their forms.

  Lydia M. Child

  Moving, Class, Circles

• It is impossible to exaggerate the evil work theology has done in the world.

  Lydia M. Child

  Evil, Done, World

  "The Progress of Religious Ideas Through Successive Ages". Book by Lydia Maria Child, Volume 3, 1855.

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