Quotes about Evil

Science in itself is morally neutral; it becomes good or evil according as it is applied.

Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.

Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.

Kindness is thrown away upon the evil.

They eat from the devil's crock-pot.

Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice. One may protest against evil; it can be exposed and, if need be, prevented by use of force. Evil always carries within itself the germ of its own subversion in that it leaves behind in human beings at least a sense of unease. Against stupidity we are defenseless.

God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.

The question of why evil exists is not a theological question, for it assumes that it is possible to go behind the existence forced upon us as sinners. If we could answer it then we would not be sinners. We could make something else responsible...The theological question does not arise about the origin of evil but about the real overcoming of evil on the Cross; it ask for the forgiveness of guilt, for the reconciliation of the fallen world.

Who is pure in heart? Only those who have surrendered their hearts completely to Jesus that he may reign in them alone. Only those whose hearts are undefiled by their own evil--and by their own virtues too. The pure in heart have a child-like simplicity like Adam before the fall, innocent alike of good and evil: their hearts are not ruled by their conscience, but by the will of Jesus.

The worse the evil, the readier must the Christian be to suffer it; he must let the evil person fall into Jesus' hands.

a false faith is capable of terrible and monstrous things.

I believe that God can and will bring good out of evil, even out of the greatest evil. For that purpose he needs men who make the best use of everything. I believe that God will give us all the strength we need to help us to resist in all times of distress. But he never gives it in advance, lest we should rely on ourselves and not on him alone. A faith such as this should allay all our fears for the future.