Good And Evil Quotes - Page 9

• Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil.

  Basil Hume

  Struggle, Evil, Suffering

  Basil Hume (2001). “Cardinal Hume: A Spiritual Companion : Reflections Through the Year”, Paraclete Press (MA)

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• I am so changeable, being everything by turns and nothing long - such a strange melange of good and evil.

  Lord Byron

  Long, Evil, Strange

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• Our judgements of good and evil ... presuppose God as the standard. If there's no God, there's neither good nor evil. There's just nature doing what it does

  Peter Kreeft

  Evil, Judgement, Doe

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• Let us keep courage and try to be patient and gentle. And let us not mind being eccentric, and make distinction between good and evil.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Evil, Mind, Trying

  Vincent van Gogh (1976). “My life & love are one: quotations from the letters of Vincent Van Gogh to his brother Theo”, Blue Mountain Press

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• Good and Evil are opposite points on a circle, Dr. Chiver. Greater good is just halfway back to Bad.

  Sheri Holman

  Opposites, Circles, Evil

  Sheri Holman (2010). “The Dress Lodger”, p.266, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. An apparently trivial indulgence in lust or anger today is the loss of a ridge or railway line or bridgehead from which the enemy may launch an attack otherwise impossible.

  C. S. Lewis

  Loss, Evil, Decision

  "The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics".

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• A clear division between good and evil, right and wrong, would simplify everything, but life was rarely simple.

  Melissa Marr

  Simple, Evil, Division

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• Was aus Liebe getan wird, geschieht immer jenseits von Gut und Böse. (What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.)

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Evil, Done, Guts

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• Man doeth this and doeth that from the good or evil of his heart; but he knows not to what end his sense doth prompt him; for when he strikes he is blind to where the blow shall fall, nor can he count the airy threads that weave the web of circumstance. Good and evil, love and hate, night and day, sweet and bitter, man and woman, heaven above and the earth beneath--all those things are needful, one to the other, and who knows the end of each?

  H. Rider Haggard

  Sweet, Hate, Fall

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• What do I know about God and the purpose of life? I know that this world exists. That I am placed in it like my eye in its visual field. That something about it is problematic, which we call its meaning. This meaning does not lie in it but outside of it. That life is the world. That my will penetrates the world. That my will is good or evil. Therefore that good and evil are somehow connected with the meaning of the world.The meaning of life, i.e. the meaning of the world, we can call God. And connect with this the comparison of God to a father.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Lying, Father, Eye

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• And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.

  Hermann Hesse

  Voice, Evil, Goal

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.102, Om Books International

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• Power should be a check on power.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Evil, Checks, Should

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• I think the highest forgiveness is to accept that creation is thoroughly tangled, with every possible quality given outlet for expression. People need to accept once and for all that there is only one life and each of us is free to shape it through the choices we make. Seeking can’t get anyone out of the tangle because everything is tangled up…it’s much easier to keep up the fight between good and evil, holy and profane, us and them. But as awareness grows, these opposites begin to calm down in their clashes, and something else emerges- a world you feel at home in.

  Deepak Chopra

  Home, Fighting, Thinking

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• One of the first things a family tries to teach its children is the difference between good and evil, right and wrong. One of the first things our schools do is destroy that distinction.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Children, Learning, School

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• Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Men, Evil, Abuse

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• Democrtitus, in the fifth century B.C. had declared that all the world was composed of only two elements: atomes and the void. This reduction of the myriad of forms to only two was the ultimate in dualistic reasoning. Christianity adopted dualism when it created the strict division between good and evil and heaven and hell.

  Leonard Shlain

  Two, Evil, Heaven

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• The battle of good and evil reduced to a fat woman standing in front of a chocolate shop, saying, Will I? Won’t I? in pitiful indecision.

  Joanne Harris

  Evil, Chocolate, Battle

  Joanne Harris (2000). “Chocolat”, p.26, Penguin

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• According to how gifted we are, we are all given a large or small key to this treasury of wonders. I have been blessed with a small key to the world of the young. It's a place where good and evil are clearly stamped. It's a place where the better part of human nature triumphs over tragedies, and where innocence rides high. It is a great pleasure to write there, because the young have what the rest of us only envy, and that is a belief in goodness and perpetual hope.

  Rosemary Wells

  Blessed, Writing, Keys

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• When you say there's too much evil in this world you assume there's good. When you assume there's good, you assume there's such a thing as a moral law on the basis of which to differentiate between good and evil. But if you assume a moral law, you must posit a moral Law Giver, but that's Who you're trying to disprove and not prove. Because if there's no moral Law Giver, there's no moral law. If there's no moral law, there's no good. If there's no good, there's no evil. What is your question?

  Ravi Zacharias

  Law, Evil, Trying

  FaceBook post by Ravi Zacharias from Aug 20, 2014

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• Good and evil go hand in hand, you can't seperate them.

  Marilyn Manson

  Hands, Evil, Hand In Hand

  "Marilyn Manson is back. Call an exorcist!" by Neil Spencer, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2000.

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• Good and evil keep very exact accounts... and the face of every man is their ledger.

  James Branch Cabell

  Men, Evil, Faces

  James Branch Cabell (2012). “Jurgen”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• Evil, which is our companion all our days, is not to be treated as a foe. It is wrong to cocker vice, but we grow narrow and pithless if we are furtive about it, for this is at best a pretense, and the sage knows good and evil are kindred. The worst of men harm others, and the best injure themselves.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Men, Evil, Vices

  Edward Dahlberg (1972). “The sorrows of Priapus: consisting of The sorrows of Priapus and The carnal myth”, Not Avail

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• Every person has the choice between Good and Evil. Choose Good, and stand against those who would choose Evil.

  Friedrich Kellner

  Evil, Choices, Persons

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• Times change, people change, thoughts about good and evil change, about true and false. But what always remains fast and steady is the affection that your friends feel for you, those who always have your best interest at heart.

  Margot Frank

  Friendship, Change, Heart

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• Dangerous thing, giving humanity the knowledge of good and evil. And the capacity to make the wrong choice more often than not.

  Lawrence Block

  Evil, Giving, Choices

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