Wicked Quotes - Page 27

• Besides P.E., geography was my best class in high school. I was in this gifted class when I was younger, and it was wicked!

  Steve Nash

  Basketball, School, Class

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• As the wicked are hurt by the best things, so the godly are bettered by the worst.

  William Jenkyn

  Religious, Hurt, Godly

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• The riches of His free grace cause me daily to triumph over all the temptations of the wicked one, who is very vigilant, and seeks all occasions to disturb me.

  George Whitefield

  Christian, Blessing, Temptation

  George Whitefield (1771). “The Works of the Reverend George Whitefield, M.A...: Containing All His Sermons and Tracts which Have Been Already Published: with a Select Collection of Letters... Also, Some Other Pieces on Important Subjects, Never Before Printed; Prepared by Himself for the Press; to which is Prefixed, an Account of His Life, Compiled from His Orignial Papers and Letters”, p.82

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• The wicked exist in this world either to be converted or that through them the good may exercise patience.

  Saint Augustine

  Exercise, Suffering, Saint

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• As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, People, Done

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.203, Delphi Classics

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• Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things. And let us reflect that having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled, we have yet gained little if we counternance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of a bitter and bloody persecutions.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Heart, Land

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.235, Penguin

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• [Religion] attacks us in our deepest integrity - the core of our self-respect. Religion says that we would not know right from wrong, we would not know an evil, wicked act from a decent human act without divine permission, without divine authority or without, even worse, either the fear of a divine punishment or the hope of a divine reward. It strips us of the right to make our own determination, as all humans always have, about what is and what is not a right human action.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Determination, Integrity, Self

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• Either God wants to abolish evil, and cannot; or he can and does not want to.
  If he wants to, but cannot, he is impotent.
  If he can, but does not want to, he is wicked.
  If, as they say, God can abolish evil, and God really wants to do it, why is there evil in the world?

  Epicurus

  Evil, Religion, Atheism

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• ...finally men were saved only through God's son dying for them, and that unless human beings believed this silly, impossible and wicked story they were doomed to hell? Can anyone with intelligence really believe that a child born today should be doomed because the snake tempted Eve and Eve tempted Adam? To believe that is not God-worship; it is devil-worship.

  Clarence Darrow

  Children, Fear, Believe

  Clarence Darrow (1995). “Why I Am an Agnostic and Other Essays”

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• If a person seems wicked, do not cast him away. Awaken him with your words, elevate him with your deeds, repay his injury with your kindness. Do not cast him away; cast away his wickedness.

  Laozi

  Spiritual, Kindness, Deeds

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• When I was abandoned by everybody, in my greatest weakness, trembling and afraid of death, when I was persecuted by this wicked world, then I often felt most surely the divine power in this name, Jesus Christ... So, by God's grace, I will live and die for that name.

  Martin Luther

  Jesus, Names, Grace

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• If Men are so wicked as we now see them with Religion what would they be if without it?

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Human Nature, Ifs

  Benjamin Franklin, Ralph Louis Ketcham (2003). “The Political Thought of Benjamin Franklin”, p.144, Hackett Publishing

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• Islam is an evil and wicked religion.

  Franklin Graham

  Evil, Islam

  "Muslims Want Graham Barred From Capitol Hill Prayer Event" by Adelle M. Banks, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 27, 2010.

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• In all their jollity in this world, the wicked are but as a book fairly bound, which when it is opened is full of nothing but tragedies. So when the book of their consciences shall be once opened, there is nothing to be read but lamentations and woes.

  Richard Sibbes

  Book, Tragedy, World

  Richard Sibbes (2015). “Complete Works of Richard Sibbes: (7 Volume Set)”, p.186, Titus Books

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• I feel now, that Arabia could easily be evangelized within the next thirty years if it were not for the wicked selfishness of Christians.

  Samuel Marinus Zwemer

  Christian, Religious, Years

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• We have been adopted as sons by the Lord with this one condition; that our life expresses Christ, the bond of our adoption. Accordingly, unless we give and devote ourselves to righteousness, we not only revolt from our Creator with wicked perfidy, but we also abjure our Savior Himself.

  John Calvin

  Faith, Son, Giving

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• The wicked are always surprised to find that the good can be clever.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Clever, Wickedness

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• As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Humor, Punishment

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.50, Oscar Wilde

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• If you are proud of your descent from virtuous ancestors, how empty their virtue will leave your hands if you yourself are not virtuous. How little pride your ancestors will have in you in this world and the next if you do no good! All men are children of Adam whom Allah created by His own Hands, giving him paradise for a dwelling place and letting His angels bow down before him. But how little is the advantage from this since all the vices dwell in mankind and all the wicked impious people are among their number.

  Ibn Hazm

  Wisdom, Children, Islamic

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• I assured myself that I'd seen the most wicked block perpetuated by man or beast.

  Sid Luckman

  Football, Block, Men

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• Little boldness is needed to assail the opinions and practices of notoriously wicked men; but to rebuke great and good men for their conduct, and to impeach their discernment, is the highest effort of moral courage.

  William Lloyd Garrison

  Integrity, Men, Practice

  William Lloyd Garrison (1832). “Thoughts on African Colonization: Or an Impartial Exhibition of the Doctrines, Principles and Purposes of the American Colonization Society. Together with the Resolutions, Addresses and Remonstrances of the Free People of Color”, p.6

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• I have firmly decided to bite the dust with a minimum of medical assistance when my time comes, and up to then to sin to my wicked heart's content.

  Albert Einstein

  Memorable, Heart, Dust

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• The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.

  Plutarch

  Strong, Wine, Men

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• Man and his deed are two distinct things. Whereas a good deed should call forth approbation and a wicked deed dis-approbation, the doer of the deed, whether good or wicked always deserves respect or pity as the case may be. Hate the sin and not the sinner is a precept which though easy enough to understand is rarely practised, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hate, Men, Two

  An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth pt. 4, ch. 9 (1929)

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• There's nobody for me to attack in this matter even with soft and gentle ridicule-and I shouldn't ever think of using a grown up weapon in this kind of a nursery. Above all, I couldn't venture to attack the clergymen whom you mention, for I have their habits and live in the same glass house which they are occupying. I am always reading immoral books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from having the same wicked good time.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Reading, Thinking

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