Good And Evil Quotes

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to make of us not simply victims, as nature and accident do, but active accomplices.

That's the world out there, little green apples and infectious disease.

She looked at her shelves, filled with books in which the bad stuff that happened to people was caused by things like witches who lured people into the woods. In a weird way, the world seemed to make more sense that way.

You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me.

There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.

The devil has not vanished simply because people refuse to believe he exists, no more than God has...

... true evil needs no reason to exist, it simply is and feeds upon itself.

Sometimes evil didn't need an excuse. Sometimes evil just was.

If you boil it down, just because someone else does the wrong thing we are not exempt from doing what’s right.

He has no need for faith who knows the uncreated, who has cut off rebirth, who has destroyed any opportunity for good or evil, and cast away all desire. He is indeed the ultimate man.

There are in this world ample reasons to be sad and disheartened, discouraged and fearful. But there are as many reasons not to be.

To see evil and call it good, mocks God. Worse, it makes goodness meaningless. A word without meaning is an abomination, for when the word passes beyond understanding the very thing the word stands for passes out of the world and cannot be recalled.

There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradise. Not Peter, not Paul, not any of those guys. He was a convicted thief, being executed. So don't knock the guys on death row. Maybe they know something you don't.

Poor God, how often He is blamed for all the suffering in the
world. It’s like praising Satan for allowing all the good that happens.

All right I think we've been down here in the dark long enough. There's a whole other world upstairs. Take my hand Constant Reader and I'll be happy to lead you back into the sunshine. I'm happy to go there because I believe most people are essentially good. I know that I am. It's you I'm not entirely sure of.

[I]t was with a good end in mind – that of acquiring the knowledge of good and evil – that Eve allowed herself to be carried away and eat the forbidden fruit. But Adam was not moved by this desire for knowledge, but simply by greed: he ate it because he heard Eve say it tasted good.

A joyful soul, a grateful spirit full of love and light!

Love is the only thing that can touch our soul and change our heart.

Science cuts two ways, of course; its products can be used for both good and evil. But there's no turning back from science.