Quotes about Evil
For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.
— Martin Luther
Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state.
— William Law
The tree of Knowledge is a Tree of Knowledge of good and evil.
— Henry David Thoreau
A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority.
— Rick Warren
Somebody must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and the chain of evil in the universe. And you do that by love
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
...love triumphs, at least in this life, not by eliminating evil once for all, but by resisting and overcoming it anew every day.
— Thomas Merton
The story of Joseph is in the Bible for this reason: to teach you to trust God to trump evil. What Satan intends for evil, God, the Master Weaver and Master Builder, redeems for good.
— Max Lucado
What Satan intends for evil, God, the Master Weaver and Master Builder, redeems for good.
— Max Lucado
Be very careful, then, how you live—not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil. Ephesians 5:15—16 NIV
— Max Lucado
For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. Ephesians 6:12
— Max Lucado
God is angry at the evil that ruins his children. The question is not, "How dare a loving God be angry?" but rather, "How could a loving God feel anything less?
— Max Lucado