Quotes about Evil
The cruelty of atheism is hard to believe. When a man has no faith in the reward of good or the punishment of evil, there is no reason to be human. There is no restraint from the depths of evil that is in man.
— Richard Wurmbrand
We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities and powers of evil. We saw that communism is not from men but from the devil. It is a spiritual force—a force of evil—and can only be countered by a greater spiritual force, the Spirit of God.
— Richard Wurmbrand
To relate oneself expectantly to the possibility of the good is to hope. To relate oneself expectantly to the possibility of evil is to fear. By the decision to choose hope one decides infinitely more than it seems, because it is an eternal decision
— Soren Kierkegaard
We're not attacking Islam but Islam has attacked us. The God of Islam is not the same God. It's a different God, and I believe it [Islam] is a very evil and wicked religion.
— Franklin Graham
Christianity is the only religion whose God bears the scars of evil.
— Os Guinness
Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who have possessed these pieties have wrought great evil.
— A Powell Davies
Americans understand we fight not a religion; ours is not a campaign against the Muslim faith. Ours is a campaign against evil.
— George W. Bush
We're all God. I'm not a god or the God, but we're all God and we're all potentially divine - and potentially evil.
— John Lennon
If the gods do evil then they are not gods.
— Euripides
But God decided to create a world where free will was more important than no one ever getting hurt. There must be something stunningly beautiful and remarkable about free will that only God can truly grasp, because God hates, literally abhors, evil, yet He created a world where evil could happen if people chose it.
— Dee Henderson
The fact evil exists speaks far more about man than about God. The Bible says God hates sin.
— Dee Henderson
God gave Adam and Eve that free will and choice. He gave them one warning: eat of any tree that is here, including the wonderful tree of life, but don't eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil…I wish Adam and Eve had thought more about what knowledge meant. Eve saw it as a good thing, to know more. But how do you really know something? You experience it
— Dee Henderson