Quotes about Evil

Chapter 13 offers a biblical view on how evil infects every good thing that God has created on this planet. That sets us up for chapter 14, where Jesus tells us that our allegiance to his spiritual family takes precedence over our allegiance to our blood family of origin.

He remarked that thinking often spoils everything and that evil usually begins with our thoughts.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion.

Poverty possesses this disease; through want it teaches a man evil.

But length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery and already she begins to know it. All get what they want; they do not always like it.

The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.

We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.

Somehow the Tories have deflected the righteous anger at the bankers who we bailed out. The Tories manage to take that outrage and direct it at benefit claimants. It's genius. Evil genius.

My concern is, How do we deal with evil without becoming it? If we aren't careful, our "justice" can be as bad as the crime itself. Yet

truth is that much stands in the way of God's will for our world, beasts like what Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called the giant triplets of evil: racism, militarism, and materialism.

There are many powers in the world, for good or for evil. Some are greater than I am. Against some I have not yet been measured. But my time is coming.