Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.
No man deserves to be praised for his goodness unless he has the strength of character to be wicked. All other goodness is generally nothing but indolence or impotence of will.
What I have learned from my work up to now, is to try to be open, but also protect myself by not letting the good and the evil get too much importance.
Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.
It's a choice of the lesser evil.
Evil prospers when good men do nothing.
I swear to goodness. Patience is something I've learned the last month,
Truth, and goodness, and beauty, are but different faces of the same All.
Preventives of evil are far better than remedies cheaper and easier of application, and surer in result.
We knew right down to the specifics of each player. Pretty much they stayed to their game plan, thank goodness, for us.
Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
We ought always to deal justly, not only with those who are just to us, but likewise to those who endeavor to injure us and this, for fear lest by rendering them evil for evil, we should fall into the same vice.
Recite that which has been revealed to you of the Book and keep up prayer surely prayer keeps (one) away from indecency and evil, and certainly the remembrance of Allah is the greatest, and Allah knows what you do. (The Spider 29.45)
As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note.
The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice.
You're meant to be playing the distillation of evil, which can be anything.
Everybody's painting a picture of us as evil, dirty, corrupt people.
The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.
When I was reporting crime ... I never had the sense of clockwork conspiracies, or some kind of imposing order of evil. What I sensed was things just sort of falling apart. That's my sense of how crime works, that it's not any kind of calculated evil driven by the devil, but just control disintegrating. Things fall apart and happen out of stupidity and carelessness. Davenport does represent order in this.
In India it is regarded as a good idea to dart in front of an oncoming car, for the car is sure to kill the evil spirits who are pursuing you, and all the rest of your life you will have good luck.
If we would let God into our schools under normal circumstances, then we probably wouldn't have to see our children turn to God when faced with this kind of evil,
No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death.
It's obvious that the local and state authorities were overwhelmed... and that the federal government needed to step in and my goodness, if we're going to ever deal with a terrorist attack which we've apparently been readying ourselves for, for the last four years and we can't even get hurricane relief right, it doesn't add confidence...
There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.
Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
Love is not getting, but giving, not a wild dream of pleasure, and madness of desire ... it is goodness, and honor, and peace and pure living.
You gotta love it baby. Oh my goodness.
This kind of violence is contrary to the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad. These cartoons should never have been printed, but the Prophet Muhammad said that we should not reciprocate by returning evil for evil. We are to reply to evil only with good.
I truly view this as a conflict between good and evil, ... at home you fight evil with acts of kindness.
Heretics are not to be disputed with, but to be condemned unheard, and whilst they perish by fire, the faithful ought to pursue the evil to its source, and bathe their heads in the blood of the Catholic bishops, and of the Pope, who is the devil in d
Look for no reward in goodness but goodness itself.
Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil.
Believe that you possess a basic goodness, which is the foundation for the greatness you can ultimately achieve.
I don't buy into any of that hogwash. They put that out to sell tickets. It's just a classic horror movie, with the Greek drama formula of good versus evil, and lots of fear.
You need not choose evil but have only to fail to choose good, and you drift fast enough toward evil. You do not need to say, ' I will be bad,' you have only to say, 'I will not choose God's choice,' and the choice of evil is already settled.
The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.
The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
And now look at the great war still devastating Europe think of the colossal brutality, cruelty, and mendacity which is now allowed to spread itself over the civilized world. Do you really believe that a handful of unprincipled placehunters and corrupters of men would have succeeded in letting loose all this latent evil, if the millions of their followers were not also guilty
However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.
A Catholic would be guilty of formal cooperation in evil, and so unworthy to present himself for holy Communion, if he were to deliberately vote for a candidate precisely because of the candidate'spermissive stand on abortion andor euthanasia. When a Catholic does not share a candidate's stand in favor of abortion andor euthanasia, but votes for that candidate for other reasons, it is considered remote material cooperation, which can be permitted in the presence of proportionate reasons.
We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.
It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.
Stupidity is the friend of evil.
Goodness is the race which God hath set him to run, and happiness the goal which none can arrive at till he hath finished his course, and received his crown in the mansions of eternity.
Evil is three-cornered snake eyes.
I have asked myself once or twice lately what was my natural bent. I have no doubt at all: It is to look at each day for the evil of that day and have a go at it, and that is why I have never failed to have an acute interest in each morning's letters.
When you see the word devil, you think evil.
They are doing this to people and it is wrong, wrong, wrong. This is an evil practice, and I want them to acknowledge it. I want them to acknowledge that what they did to me was wrong.
Evil is knowing better, but willingly doing worse.
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