Quotes about Evils

But when he rebuked Herod the tetrarch regarding his brother’s wife Herodias and all the evils he had done,

Hence the entire psalm accuses nothing but pride, as stated below (v. 23): The pride of those who hate Thee goes up continually. For this is the cause of unbelief and the beginning of all evils.

No pain, no gain. Without danger, the virtue of courage cannot be developed. Without trials and tribulations we can have no patience. God has to permit sin before we can experience forgiveness. Higher-order virtues are dependent on allowing lower-order evils.

We get what we deserve in life, and the challenges and evils that come are opportunities to overcome.

The priesthood of God is a shield. It is a shield against the evils of the world. That shield needs to be kept clean; otherwise, our vision of our purpose and the dangers around us will be limited.

But pain is perfect misery, the worst of evils, and excessive, overturns all patience.

One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it.

the Lord has freed us from great evils to which we have been subjected, and that we have accepted many good things by faith.

Myself my sepulcher, a moving grave, Buried, yet not exempt By privilege of death and burial From worst of other evils, pains and wrongs, But made hereby obnoxious To all the miseries of life.

Is that too innocence, when the fountain of milk is flowing in rich abundance, not to endure one to share it, though in extremest need, and whose very life as yet depends thereon? We bear gently with all this, not as being no or slight evils, but because they will disappear as years increase; for, though tolerated now, the very same tempers are utterly intolerable when found in riper years.

the Western form of ignoring real spiritual evils by building a technological heaven on earth. Both are doomed to failure

All these evils come from within, and these are what defile a man.”