Quotes about Evil
Other sins find their vent in the accomplishment of evil deeds, whereas pride lies in wait for good deeds, to destroy them.
- St. Augustine
The fall [of your soul] from perfection into duality...was naturally followed by the discovery of the duality of good and evil...This is the Biblical version of a myth known to many lands.
- Joseph Campbell
When I sit down to write a novel, I am exploring my own relationship with God, with the struggle between good and evil, my own purpose.
- Ted Dekker
God is the God of the present as well as of the future...even here on earth, He reigneth, dispensing good and evil.
- Alfred Edersheim
There is a very good thing about hating evil. If you hate evil, that's all you will hate
- Dennis Prager
Human law cannot punish or forbid all evil, since while doing away with evils it would do away with many good things, which would hinder the advance of the common good.
- St. Augustine
Everybody has an instinctive desire to do good things and avoid evil. But that desire is sterile as long as we have no experience of what it means to be good.
- Thomas Merton
For evil news rides post, while good news baits.
- John Milton
It's better to die doing good than to live doing evil.
- Brigham Young
Unless we lay our course in accordance with this principle, the great power for good in the world with which we have been intrusted by a Divine Providence will be turned to a power for evil.
- Calvin Coolidge
We are fundamentally good, and evil is an aberration.
- Desmond Tutu
Without the Christian explanation of original sin, the seemingly silly story of Adam and Eve and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, there was no explanation of conflict. At all.
- Donald Miller