Quotes about Evil
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
I am justified. For I chose wisdom and the knowledge of good and evil ; and now there is no evil; and wisdom and good are one. It is enough.
— George Bernard Shaw
Sometimes (at least in principle) God might allow some evil because doing so will prevent a greater evil, and sometimes He might allow evil because it will produce a greater good.
— Greg Koukl
My hope is that my novels reflect the reality of a world where good and evil exist, imperfect people make mistakes, but a perfect Heavenly Father offers forgiveness and second chances.
— Julie Klassen
In a strictly scientific sense God is at the bottom of both good and evil.
— Mahatma Gandhi