Quotes about Evil
For you are to observe, that Body begins not from itself, nor is any Thing of itself, but is all that it is, whether pure or impure, has all that it has, whether of Light or Darkness, and works all that it works, whether of Good or Evil, merely from Spirit.
— William Law
Even if we may not always understand why God allows certain things to happen to us, we can know He is able to bring good out of evil, and triumph out of suffering.
— Billy Graham
What do we find God 'doing about' this business of sin and evil?...God did not abolish the fact of evil; He transformed it. He did not stop the Crucifixion; He rose from the dead.
— Dorothy Sayers
Evil may have its hour, but God will have His day.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Mercy imitates God and disappoints Satan.
— St. John Chrysostom
Since God is the highest good, he would not allow any evil to exist in his works unless his omnipotence and goodness were such as to bring good even out of evil.
— St. Augustine
The devil is God's ape!
— Martin Luther
God himself would not permit evil in this world if good did not come of it for the benefit and harmony of the universe.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
It is one thing to fear God as threatening, with a holy reverence, and another to be afraid of the evil threatened.
— John Owen
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
— St. Augustine
Faith is, necessary to explain anything, and to reconcile the foreknowledge of God with human evil.
— William Wordsworth
Satan can imitate God, but he cannot duplicate Him - God is the only One who can deliver us from our pain and suffering.
— David Jeremiah