Quotes about Evil

The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.

If we are to fight evil in our world—as we are called to do—we cannot harbor deceitfulness in our hearts. May God give us the courage and the strength and the wisdom to live as he wants us to live. He is a holy God. And he is also a God of love. He desires only our good. He will show us what we each must learn from this experience today.

Had he allowed this deceit to go unpunished, more of his children would eventually have perished than the two we lost. The evil lurking in our hearts will take over if left unchecked. God has given us a reminder of whom we serve. Just as he did in the days of Moses, when God gave the painful instruction to destroy some in order to save more. In a way, it is encouraging, blessed, to realize that we are serving Moses' God. He has not changed.

Evil did not catch God by surprise. He had a rescue plan, and He's still in the process of working out His plan.

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

Good men stand against evil and overcome it, in their private lives and in their communities.

The evil influence of Satan would destroy any hope we have in overcoming our mistakes. He would have us feel that we are lost and that there is no hope. In contrast, Jesus reaches down to us to lift us up.

As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.

Evil has insinuated itself into our very souls and rules over us from the very citadel erected to guard us against it.

Is money good? Is money good? Many negative-minded persons say, "Money is the root of all evil." But the Bible says: Love of money is the root of all evil. And there is a big difference between the two even though one little word makes the difference.

Even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each one of you, so the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also.

but is in danger from the American evil of commercializing even the sacred festivals.