Evil Quotes - Page 33

• Evil can be opposed without being mirrored. Oppressors can be resisted without being emulated. Enemies can be neutralized without being destroyed.

  Walter Wink

  Enemy, Oppressors, Destroyed

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• Having lost its value, money may no longer be the root of all evil; credit having taken its place.

  Dalton Camp

  Taken, Roots, Credit

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• You can leave the Church, but you can’t leave it alone. The basic reason for this is simple. Once someone has received a witness of the Spirit and accepted it, he leaves neutral ground. One loses his testimony only by listening to the promptings of the evil one, and Satan’s goal is not complete when a person leaves the Church, but when he comes out in open rebellion against it.

  Glenn L. Pace

  Simple, Goal, Listening

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• If the guilt of sin is so great that nothing can satisfy it but the blood of Jesus; and the filth of sin is so great that nothing can fetch out the stain thereof but the blood of Jesus, how great, how heinous, how sinful must the evil of sin be.

  William Throsby Bridges

  Jesus, Blood, Guilt

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• The peasants of all lands recognize power and they salute it, whether it's good or evil.

  Andrei Codrescu

  Land, Peasants, Salute

  Andrei Codrescu (2009). “The Posthuman Dada Guide: tzara and lenin play chess”, p.139, Princeton University Press

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• For, after all, if it is from Christ that we are to learn how God relates himself to sin, suffering, evil, and death, it would seem that he provides us little evidence of anything other than a regal, relentless, and miraculous enmity; sin he forgives, suffering he heals, evil he casts out, and death he conquers. And absolutely nowhere does Christ act as if any of these things are part of the eternal work or purposes of God.

  David Bentley Hart

  Suffering, Forgiving, Enmity

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• Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth.

  Hans Bender

  Earth, Mass, Projection

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• Questions of absolute good and evil are much better not opened to public debate these days, when so few people are sure of their absolutes

  Sidney Howard

  People, Debate, These Days

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• I have sometimes been haunted with the idea that it was an imperative duty, knowing what I know, and having seen what I have seen, to do all that lies in my power to show the dangers and the evils of this frightful institution.

  Fanny Kemble

  Fear, Lying, Knowing

  Fanny Kemble (1961). “Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839”, p.44, University of Georgia Press

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• Every Christian will allow that sin is an evil, and that it is our duty not to commit sin.

  John Nelson Darby

  Christian, Sin, Duty

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• But alas, the most terrifying aspect of the whole fascist episode is the dark fact that most of its poisons are generated not by evil men or evil peoples, but by quite ordinary men in search of an answer to the baffling problems that beset every society.

  John T. Flynn

  Dark, Men, Mind

  "As We Go Marching".

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• There are two kinds of people in this world. There are the people that will have you think that there are two kinds of people in this world, and there are the 'good; people. There is no good, there is no evil, there is just a war going on between the people that want you to think there's a war going on and the people that know there doesn't have to be one.

  Dan Harmon

  War, Thinking, Two

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• We're at war against the ultimate evil in the world, and We're going to win.

  Johnny Isakson

  War, Winning, World

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• In both the presence of evil and the eventual triumph over evil the sweep is cosmic. It embraces the entire universe, what to man is both seen and unseen. The victory is to be accomplished through Christ.

  Kenneth Scott Latourette

  Men, Victory, Unseen

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• When we are unwilling to draw clear moral lines between free societies and fear societies, when we are unwilling to call the former good and the latter evil, we will not be able to advance the cause of peace because peace cannot be disconnected from freedom.

  Natan Sharansky

  Peace, Lines, Able

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• Now you see. We are all fugitives. We have always been fugitives from the void. Whatever comfort, whatever power we gain from outside of ourselves diminishes us -- because comfort and power, unless they are won from the void inside of us, are illusions that make us forget the emptyness that carries us. When we forget that, we believe we deserve comfort and power and so are capable of any evil. We deserve nothing but what we make of ourselves. We deserve nothing else. And when we understand that, then nothing is enough.

  A.A. Attanasio

  Believe, Gains, Comfort

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• God’s holiness, then, is not only the opposite of evil; it is the measure by which we know evil to be evil.

  David F. Wells

  Opposites, Holiness, Knows

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• Evil by its very nature opposes the purposes of God, but God, in his sovereignty, can make even this evil serve his purposes.

  David F. Wells

  Purpose, Sovereignty, Purpose Of God

  Wells, David F. (2017). “The Courage to Be Protestant, 2nd ed.”, p.175, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Some people turn from God because they cannot understand how a good God can permit evil in the world.

  Walter Lang

  People, World, Good God

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• To the Green movement in which infantilism is seen at its worst, authority is a far more serious evil than the destruction of life.

  Pentti Linkola

  Movement, Green, Serious

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• Therefore I begin to think, my Lord, you purposely allow us to be brought into contact with the bad and evil things that You want changed. Perhaps that is the very reason why we are here in this world, where sin and sorrow and suffering and evil abound, so that we may let You teach us so to react to them, that out of them we can create lovely qualities to live forever. That is really the only satisfactory way of dealing with evil. Not simply binding it so that it cannot work harm, but whenever possible overcoming it with good.

  Hannah Hurnard

  Thinking, Forever, Lovely

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• That government is not a necessary good but an unavoidable evil.

  Lyn Nofziger

  Government

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• The state is concerned with the promotion of outward righteousness arising from the individual being constrained to keep the law. The Gospel alters human nature, whereas the state merely restrains human greed and evil, having no positive power to alter human motivation.

  Alister E. McGrath

  Motivation, Law, Greed

  Alister E. McGrath (2012). “Reformation Thought: An Introduction”, p.217, John Wiley & Sons

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• God... has a pencil with an eraser on it and he has promised us that he will use it if we will repent and change our ways…He has said that if we would forsake our evil and thoroughly make up our minds against it, then he would wash it out of his mind and just forget the whole thing. Of course, he expects that we will wash it out of our minds also.

  Sterling W Sill

  Mind, Use, Way

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• Evil doesn’t have to be an overt act; it can be merely the absence of good. If you have the ability, the resources, and the opportunity to do good and you do nothing, that can be evil.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Opportunity, Absence, Resources

  Yvon Chouinard (2016). “Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman--Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual”, p.270, Penguin

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