Quotes about Evil

I lift my voice of warning against praising or flattering your ministers. I have seen the evil, the dreadful evil, of praising ministers. Never, never speak a word in the praise of ministers to their faces. Exalt God.

Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil, and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder.

There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

For what is that which we call evil but the absence of good?

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

Evil is uncertain in the same degree as good, and for the reason that we ought not to hope too securely, we ought not to fear with too much dejection

While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern.

We're living in a fearful time. Since 9/11 people have become more afraid than before, because of terrorism. There's a lot of confusion about evil, where it's all coming from.

That space the evil one abstracted stood from his own evil, and for the time remained Stupidly good, of enmity disarmed, of guile, of hate, of envy, of revenge .

We may well lie with what seems to be a woman of flesh and blood, and yet all the time it is only a devil in the shape of a woman.

To live as God meant us to live, we must trust him, and—to no small extent—trust those made in his image. Everyone in the Bible from Adam and Eve to the rogue rulers in the book of Revelation showed their evil fundamentally by denying God's authority and usurping it as their own.