Evil Quotes - Page 38

• Be Luke Skywalker, not Darth Vader. Ultimately love is stronger than evil.

  Don Burr

  Love Is, Stronger, Aviation

  4 Copy quote

• Be ashamed when you sin, don't be ashamed when you repent [To repent means to have a change of heart and mind. It is not simply a feeling of sorrow ,but a psycho/spiritual growth away from evil/death and a turning to God/life]. Sin is the wound, repentance is the medicine. Sin is followed by shame; repentance is followed by boldness [ Boldness means to beg God for undeserved mercy]. Satan has overturned this order and given boldness to sin and shame to repentance.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Love, Spiritual, Mean

  485 Copy quote

• Evil is an extreme manifestation of human unconsciousness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Love, Consciousness, Manifestation

  6 Copy quote

• Those whose spiritual awareness has been awakened never make a false move. They don't have to avoid evil. They are so replete with love that whatever they do is a good action. They are fully conscious that they are not the doer of their actions, but only servants of God.

  Ramakrishna

  Love, Spiritual, Moving

  31 Copy quote

• He must also know evil, hate and bigotry as real phenomena, but he must see love as the greater force. He must not doubt this even for a moment or he is lost. His only salvation is to dedicate himself to love, in the same fashion as Gandhi did to militant nonviolence, as Socrates to truth, as Jesus did to love and as More did to integrity. Only then will he have the strength to combat the forces of doubt, confusion and contradiction. He can depend upon no on or no thing for reinforcement and assurance but himself.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love, Fashion, Jesus

  8 Copy quote

• My study of Gandhi convinced me that true pacifism is not nonresistance to evil, but nonviolent resistance to evil. Between the two positions, there is a world of difference. Gandhi resisted evil with as much vigor and power as the violent resister, but True pacifism is not unrealistic submission to evil power. It is rather a courageous confrontation of evil by the power of love. . . .

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Courage, Two

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “"In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global Vision of Justice”, p.99, Beacon Press

  35 Copy quote

  Show source

• God is good and God is light In this faith I rest secure, Evil can but serve the right, Over all shall love endure.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Love, Faith, Light

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1857*). “Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.144

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Badness cannot succeed even in being bad in the same way in which goodness is good. Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness. Evil is a parasite, not an original thing.

  C. S. Lewis

  Catholic, Way, Succeed

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.50, HarperCollins UK

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Our Apostolic Mandate requires from Us that We watch over the purity of the Faith and the integrity of Catholic discipline. It requires from Us that We protect the faithful from evil and error; especially so when evil and error are presented in dynamic language which, concealing vague notions and ambiguous expressions with emotional and high-sounding words, is likely to set ablaze the hearts of men in pursuit of ideals which, whilst attractive, are nonetheless nefarious.

  Pope Pius X

  Powerful, Integrity, Heart

  85 Copy quote

• Pope Gelasius in his ninth letter (chap. 26) to the bishops of Lucania condemned the evil practice which had been introduced of women serving the priest at the celebration of Mass. Since this abuse had spread to the Greeks, Innocent IV strictly forbade it in his letter to the bishop of Tusculum: 'Women should not dare to serve at the altar; they should be altogether refused this ministry.' We too have forbidden this practice in the same words.

  Pope Benedict XIV

  Powerful, Practice, Catholic

  21 Copy quote

• We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Business, Men, Choices

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.45, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world. Almost any evil you'd care to name comes from working or from living in a world designed for work. In order to stop suffering, we have to stop working.

  Bob Black

  Order, Names, Suffering

  Bob Black (1986). “The Abolition of Work and Other Essays”, Loompanics Unltd

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• Economists and workplace consultants regard it as almost unquestioned dogma that people are motivated by rewards, so they don't feel the need to test this. It has the status more of religious truth than scientific hypothesis. The facts are absolutely clear. There is no question that in virtually all circumstances in which people are doing things in order to get rewards, extrinsic tangible rewards undermine intrinsic motivation.The bonus myth: How paying for results can backfire The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Motivation, Knowledge

  11 Copy quote

• Among the great struggles of man-good/evil, reason/unreason, etc.-there is also this mighty conflict between the fantasy of Home and the fantasy of Away, the dream of roots and the mirage of the journey.

  Salman Rushdie

  Dream, Struggle, Home

  Salman Rushdie (2000). “The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel”, p.55, Macmillan

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• They were too God-intoxicated to be "astronomically intimidated." They brought an end to such ancient evils as infanticide and gladiatorial contest.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Ancient, Ends

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.102, Beacon Press

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• God is in the manger, wealth in poverty, light in darkness, succor in abandonment. No evil can befall us; whatever men may do to us, they cannot but serve the God who is secretly revealed as love and rules the world and our lives.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christmas, Men, Light

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas”, p.5, Westminster John Knox Press

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• ...And then, just when everything is bearing down on us to such an extent that we can scarcely withstand it, the Christmas message comes to tell us that all our ideas are wrong, and that what we take to be evil and dark is really good and light because it comes from God. Our eyes are at fault, that is all.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christmas, Eye, Dark

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas”, p.5, Westminster John Knox Press

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Christmas Eve Saint Francis and Saint Benedight Blesse this house from wicked wight; From the night-mare and the goblin, That is hight good fellow Robin: Keep it from all evil spirits, Fairies, weezels, rats, and ferrets: From curfew time To the next prime.

  Thomas Cartwright

  Time, Night, House

  12 Copy quote

• Some say no evil thing that walks by night, In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, No goblin, or swart fairy of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity.

  John Milton

  Time, Power, Night

  John Milton (1859). “The poems of John Milton”, p.98

  73 Copy quote

  Show source

• Within me is the potential to commit every evil act I see being committed by other men, and unless I feel this potential, I can at any moment be controlled by these same urges. I am free from these urges only if I recognize when I am feeling them, and while feeling them and acknowledging them to be me, choose not to follow them. Only in this way can I begin to regain the disowned parts of me. And only in this way can I know what it is I am criticizing in others.

  Hugh Prather

  Men, Feelings, Way

  Hugh Prather (1983). “Notes to Myself”, Bantam

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't buy into any of that hogwash. They put that out to sell tickets. It's just a classic horror movie, with the Greek drama formula of good versus evil, and lots of fear.

  Margot Kidder

  Drama, Greek, Hogwash

  "No kidding" by Chris Roberts, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2005.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have known good and evil,  sin and virtue, right and wrong;  I have judged and been judged;  I have passed through birth and death,  Joy and sorrow, heaven and hell;  And in the end I realized  that I AM in everything and everything is in me.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Joy, Heaven, Sorrow

  99 Copy quote

• Nonresistance is one of the principles of aikido. Because there is no resistance, you have won before even starting. People whose minds are evil or who enjoy fighting are defeated without a fight.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Fighting, People, Mind

  53 Copy quote

• THE ART OF PEACE is not easy. It is a fight to the finish, the slaying of evil desires and all falsehood within. On occasion the voice of peace resounds like thunder, jolting human beings out of their stupor.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Art, Fighting, Voice

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.53, Shambhala Publications

  47 Copy quote

  Show source

• PRACTICE THE Art of Peace sincerely, and evil thoughts and deeds will naturally disappear. The only desire that should remain is the thirst for more and more training in the Way.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Art, Practice, Training

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.79, Shambhala Publications

  5 Copy quote

  Show source