The Lord saw how great man\u2019s wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time.<\/p>\n
The Bible, Genesis 6:5<\/i><\/p>\n
Do not fret because of evil men or be envious of those who do wrong; for like the grass they will soon wither, like green plants they will soon die away.<\/p>\n
The Bible, Psalm 37:1, 2<\/i><\/p>\n
If a man pays back evil for good, evil will never leave his house.<\/p>\n
The Bible, Proverbs 17:13<\/i><\/p>\n
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil.<\/p>\n
The Bible, Isaiah 5:20 kjv<\/i><\/p>\n
Be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.<\/p>\n
The Bible, John 16:33 kjv<\/i><\/p>\n
Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.<\/p>\n
The Bible, Romans 12:9<\/i><\/p>\n
Avoid every kind of evil.<\/p>\n
The Bible, 1 Thessalonians 5:22<\/i><\/p>\n
Let no man be called good who mixes good with evil.<\/p>\n
Author unknown<\/i><\/p>\n
For, were it not good that evil things should also exist, the omnipotent God would almost certainly not allow evil to be, since beyond doubt it is just as easy for Him not to allow what He does not will, as for Him to do what He will.<\/p>\n
Augustine of Hippo<\/i><\/p>\n
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.<\/p>\n
Augustine of Hippo<\/i><\/p>\n
Sin is not confined to the evil things we do. It is the evil within us, the evil which we are.<\/p>\n
Karl Barth<\/i><\/p>\n
The truth of Christ\u2019s supremacy over all the powers in the universe is one which modern man sorely needs to learn \u2026 To be united to Christ by faith is to throw off the thraldom of hostile powers, to enjoy perfect freedom, to gain the mastery over the dominion of evil \u2013 because Christ\u2019s victory is ours.<\/p>\n
F.F. Bruce<\/i><\/p>\n
Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison.<\/p>\n
Buddha<\/i><\/p>\n
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.<\/p>\n
Edmund Burke<\/i><\/p>\n
If you cannot hate evil, you cannot love good.<\/p>\n
Struthers Burt<\/i><\/p>\n
There is no permanent place in [this universe] for evil \u2026 Evil may hide behind this fallacy and that, but it will be hunted from fallacy to fallacy until there is no more fallacy for it to hide behind.<\/p>\n
Thomas Carlyle<\/i><\/p>\n
God is the author of the author of sin, but he cannot be the author of sin itself, for sin is the result of a rebellion against God. Can God rebel against himself?<\/p>\n
E.J. Carnell<\/i><\/p>\n
The cross of Christ is God\u2019s final answer to the problem of evil because the problem of evil is in the cross itself.<\/p>\n
E.J. Carnell<\/i><\/p>\n
Only if man can do evil is there any meaning to doing good.<\/p>\n
Cherbonnier<\/i><\/p>\n
It is hard for the good to suspect evil as it is hard for the bad to suspect good.<\/p>\n
Cicero<\/i><\/p>\n
They do more harm by their evil example than by their actual sin.<\/p>\n
Cicero<\/i><\/p>\n
We cannot do evil to others without doing it to ourselves.<\/p>\n
Joseph Francois Eduard Desmahis<\/i><\/p>\n
My child, flee from every evil and everything that resembleth it.<\/p>\n
Didache<\/i><\/p>\n
It is a Christian conviction that evil is permitted by a sovereign God in some way that is ultimately compatible with his goodness.<\/p>\n
William Dyrness<\/i><\/p>\n
Evil is but an illusion, and it has no real basis. Evil is a false belief.<\/p>\n
Mary Baker Eddy<\/i><\/p>\n
The real problem is in the hearts and minds of men. It is not a problem of physics but of ethics. It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil from the spirit of man.<\/p>\n
Albert Einstein<\/i><\/p>\n
Against the dark background of man\u2019s failure and sin, the cross shows us the measure of God\u2019s passion against evil and the measure of God\u2019s passion to redeem his sinful children.<\/p>\n
W.H.T. Gairdner<\/i><\/p>\n
Darkness is not nothing; it is the absence of light. Likewise, sickness is the absence of health, and death is the absence of life which belongs to a being. All these are real lacks. Similarly, evil is just as real, although it has no more being of its own than does darkness or sickness.<\/p>\n
Norman L. Geisler<\/i><\/p>\n
While we do not believe that personal freedom is the ultimate explanation of the origin of evil, we do believe that freedom was the means by which sin did come into the world.<\/p>\n
John Gerstner<\/i><\/p>\n
Man does not rule over evil except when he refuses to do it. When he has truly done evil, he is its servant.<\/p>\n
Hildegard of Bingen<\/i><\/p>\n
Today, I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord.<\/p>\n
Adolf Hitler<\/i><\/p>\n
If our hearing were sufficiently acute to catch every note of pain, we would be deafened by one continuous scream.<\/p>\n
Thomas Huxley<\/i><\/p>\n
To me, at any rate, the view of evil implied by Marxism, expressed by Shaw and maintained by modern psychotherapy, a view which regards evil as the by-product of circumstances which circumstances can, therefore, alter and even eliminate, has come to seem intolerably shallow.<\/p>\n
C.E.M. Joad<\/i><\/p>\n
No man ever became extremely wicked all at once.<\/p>\n
Juvenal<\/i><\/p>\n
We believe no evil till the evil\u2019s done.<\/p>\n
La Fontaine<\/i><\/p>\n
Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it.<\/p>\n
Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld<\/i><\/p>\n
Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness. And there must be something good first before it can be spoiled.<\/p>\n
C.S. Lewis<\/i><\/p>\n
Evil is a parasite, not an original thing.<\/p>\n
C.S. Lewis<\/i><\/p>\n
It is men, not God, who have produced racks, whips, prisons, slavery, guns, bayonets, and bombs; it is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork.<\/p>\n
C.S. Lewis<\/i><\/p>\n
The descent to hell is easy, and those who begin by worshiping power soon worship evil.<\/p>\n
C.S. Lewis<\/i><\/p>\n
The teaching of the New Testament is that the whole time the world has been \u201clying in the wicked one.\u201d<\/p>\n
M. Lloyd-Jones<\/i><\/p>\n
Evil is only good perverted.<\/p>\n
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow<\/i><\/p>\n
Why is it any easier to account for goodness without God than it is to account for evil with him? That the problem of evil generates more fury than the problem of goodness may be more a matter of psychology than philosophy.<\/p>\n
Ed. L. Miller<\/i><\/p>\n
To create only those who \u201cmust\u201d (in any sense) choose good is to create automata; and to whisk away evil effects as they are produced is to whisk away evil itself, for an act and its consequences are bound together.<\/p>\n
John W. Montgomery<\/i><\/p>\n
Good had but one enemy, the evil; but the evil has two enemies, the good and itself.<\/p>\n
Johannes von Muller<\/i><\/p>\n
Many have puzzled themselves about the origin of evil. I am content to observe that there is evil, and that there is a way to escape from it, and with this I begin and end.<\/p>\n
John Newton<\/i><\/p>\n
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he doesn\u2019t become a monster.<\/p>\n
Frederick Nietzsche<\/i><\/p>\n
A wayfarer takes shelter under a rock which, loosened by rain, comes tumbling down, killing him. That is natural evil. A wayfarer takes shelter in a little hut, but a wicked robber stabs him to death. That is moral evil.<\/p>\n
J. Edwin Orr<\/i><\/p>\n
Why suppose that if God does have a good reason for permitting evil, the theist would be the first to know? Perhaps God has a good reason, but that reason is too complicated for us to understand.<\/p>\n
Alvin Plantinga<\/i><\/p>\n
Two wrongs do not make a right.<\/p>\n
English proverb<\/i><\/p>\n
Every evil comes to us on wings and goes away limping.<\/p>\n
French proverb<\/i><\/p>\n
Avoid the evil, and it will avoid thee.<\/p>\n
Gaelic proverb<\/i><\/p>\n
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.<\/p>\n
German proverb<\/i><\/p>\n
No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.<\/p>\n
Theodore Roosevelt<\/i><\/p>\n
Evil often triumphs, but never conquers.<\/p>\n
Joseph Roux<\/i><\/p>\n
It is in our hearts that evil lies, and it is from our hearts that it must be plucked out.<\/p>\n
Bertrand Russell<\/i><\/p>\n
He [Christ] did not stop the crucifixion; He rose from the dead.<\/p>\n
Dorothy Sayers<\/i><\/p>\n
There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards theyoffer.<\/p>\n
Seneca<\/i><\/p>\n
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.<\/p>\n
William Shakespeare, Hamlet<\/i><\/p>\n
Of two evils choose neither.<\/p>\n
C.H. Spurgeon<\/i><\/p>\n
Often in this present world, the most wicked men are the most prosperous, while the most holy are the most afflicted.<\/p>\n
C.H. Spurgeon<\/i><\/p>\n
Every renewed heart is anxious to be free from even a speck of evil.<\/p>\n
C.H. Spurgeon<\/i><\/p>\n
There is no evil in the atom \u2013 only in men\u2019s souls.<\/p>\n
Adlai Stevenson<\/i><\/p>\n
The blessed person is not him who simply declines the evil, but he who does what is good.<\/p>\n
Symeon the New Theologian<\/i><\/p>\n
Never do evil for anything in the world, or for the love of any man.<\/p>\n
Thomas \u00e0 Kempis<\/i><\/p>\n
The Christian has abundant reason to believe in God in the full theistic sense. If, then, he runs into some difficulty, even a difficulty as great as the problem of evil, he does not, for that reason, give up his faith. The reasons for his faith are so great that they can weather a few storms.<\/p>\n
David Elton Trueblood<\/i><\/p>\n
If all evil, whether moral, natural or intellectual, is truly illusory, we are foolish indeed to fight it; it would be far preferable to forget it.<\/p>\n
David Elton Trueblood<\/i><\/p>\n
He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.<\/p>\n
Leonardo da Vinci<\/i><\/p>\n
There is more evil in a drop of sin, than in a sea of affliction.<\/p>\n
Thomas Watson<\/i><\/p>\n
All the miseries and evils which men suffer from \u2013 vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery, and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.<\/p>\n
Noah Webster<\/i><\/p>\n
At the heart of the story stands the cross of Christ where evil did its worst and met its match.<\/p>\n
John W. Wenham<\/i><\/p>\n
When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I\u2019ve never tried before.<\/p>\n
Mae West<\/i><\/p>\n
Evil indulged in eventually becomes evil that controls us.<\/p>\n
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