Quotes about Evil
religion either produces the very best people or the very worst.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
The shape of evil is much more superficiality and blindness than the usual list of hot sins. God hides, and is found, precisely in the depths of everything.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
The game is over once we see clearly because evil succeeds only by disguising itself as good, necessary, or helpful.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Ability to laugh at evil, to relativize symbols without dismissing them is usually a sign of a rather healthy person. Puritans and reformers can never laugh.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
The way to transmute the pain of life is to reveal the wounded side of things, evil, even, and then place the wound inside of sacred space. The Bible is about naming, facing, and then forgiving the wounds of history.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
True baptism allows us to reframe, and contain, the reality of evil, without needing to blame anyone else, without any need for shame or vengeance. We are all in this together, and our common wound shows itself in different ways.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Like any true spiritual master, Jesus exposed the root causes of evil (almost always some form of idolatry), and did not waste time punishing the mere symptoms, as moralistic people usually do.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Just as the Spirit always makes one out of two, so the evil one invariably makes two out of one!
— Fr. Richard Rohr
He did not come to change God's mind about us. It did not need changing. Jesus came to change our minds about God—and about ourselves—and about where goodness and evil really lie.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Indeed in nothing is the power of the Dark Lord more clearly shown than in the estrangement that divides all those who still oppose him.
— JRR Tolkien
The power of the gospel lies[...] in the powerful announcement that God is God, that Jesus is Lord, that the powers of evil have been defeated, that God's new world has begun.
— NT Wright
In the Lord's Prayer, Jesus assumes that asking for forgiveness would be a daily occurrence, as would praying that we might be delivered from evil and led not into temptation.
— Kevin DeYoung