Evil Thoughts Quotes

• We ask God to forgive us for our evil thoughts and evil temper, but rarely, if ever ask Him to forgive us for our sadness.

  Robert William Dale

  Sad, Evil, Forgiving

  Robert William Dale (1877). “Nine Lectures on Preaching: Delivered at Yale College, New Haven, Connecticut”

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• May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.

  Yahya Jammeh

  Creating, Evil, Enemy

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• It is our own evil thoughts which madden us.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Evil, Madden

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• To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.

  Aeschylus

  Evil, Literature, Best Gift

  Aeschylus (1849). “The tragedies of Æschylus”, p.122

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• Feel no sadness because of evil thoughts: it only strengthens them.

  Nachman of Breslov

  Sadness, Evil, Feels

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• In the realm of evil thoughts none induces to sin as much as do thoughts that concern the pleasure of the flesh.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Evil, Catholic, Purity And Love

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• The principle of ahimsa is hurt by every evil thought, by undue haste, by lying, by hatred, by wishing ill to anybody.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hurt, Lying, Evil

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.226, Tara Publishing

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• Evil thought is a dangerous pet. It is safer to play with it from behind the iron bars of circumstance.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Play, Iron, Evil

  Jerome K. Jerome, Carolyn Oulton (2012). “Weeds: A Story in Seven Chapters”, p.60, Victorian Secrets

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• Being delivered from bodily sins is not enough; we must also cleanse the inner energy which dwells in our soul. For out of our hearts 'proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness' (Mk. 7:21) and so on ? these are what motivate people.

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Heart, People

  Saint Gregory Palamas, Christopher Veniamin, Monastery of St. John the Baptist (Essex, England) (2009). “The homilies”, Mount Thabor Pub

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• There are no evil thoughts except one; the refusal to think.

  Ayn Rand

  Dream, Thinking, Evil

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.320, Hamilton Books

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• A sure way to irritate people and to put evil thoughts into their heads is to keep them waiting a long time. This makes them immoral.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Long, People, Evil

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• Any refusal to recognize reality, for any reason whatever, has disastrous consequences. There are no evil thoughts except one: the refusal to think. Don't ignore your own desires.... Don't sacrifice them. Examine their cause. There is a limit to how much you should have to bear.

  Ayn Rand

  Sacrifice, Thinking, Reality

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.1454, Penguin

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• All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If people speak or act with evil thoughts, pain follows them. If people speak or act with pure thoughts, happiness follows them, like a shadow that never leaves them.

  Gautama Buddha

  Change, Trust, Pain

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• I whistled. "You have evil thoughts for a goat.

  Rick Riordan

  Evil, Goats

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• When you were straight, evil thoughts and memories came pouring up out of the darkness inside you; buzzing black flies clinging to the insides of your skull.

  J. K. Rowling

  Memories, Skulls, Evil

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• Take this to heart and doubt not that you are the one who killed Christ. Your sins certainly did, and when you see the nails driven through his hands, be sure that you are pondering, and when the thorns pierce his brow, know that they are your evil thoughts.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Jesus, Heart

  Martin Luther (1997). “Martin Luther's Easter Book”, p.82, Augsburg Books

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• If one evil thought, if one evil word, if one evil action, deserves eternal damnation, how many hells, my friends, do every one of us deserve, whose whole lives have been one continued rebellion against God!

  George Whitefield

  Evil, Damnation, Action

  George Whitefield (1904). “Selected Sermons of George Whitefield: With an Introduction and Notes by the Rev. A.R. Buckland ...”, p.883, CCEL

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• Simplicity is an enduring habit within a soul that has grown impervious to evil thoughts.

  John Climacus

  Simple, Evil, Simplicity

  Saint John (Climacus) (1982). “John Climacus (CWS)”, p.215, Paulist Press

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• Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of haviong an evil thought during the game.

  Wilhelm Steinitz

  Believe, Player, Games

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• Often we combat our evil thoughts most effectively if we absolutely refuse to allow them to be expressed in words.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Evil, Combat, Refuse

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.70, SCM Press

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• PRACTICE THE Art of Peace sincerely, and evil thoughts and deeds will naturally disappear. The only desire that should remain is the thirst for more and more training in the Way.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Art, Practice, Evil

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.79, Shambhala Publications

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• I do a great wrong in His sight, when I beseech Him that He will hear my prayer, which as I give utterance to it, I do not hear myself. I entreat Him that He will think of me; but I regard neither myself nor Him. Nay, what is worse, turning over corrupt and evil thoughts in mine heart, I thrust a dreadful offensiveness into His presence.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Prayer, Heart, Thinking

  Saint Bernard (of Clairvaux) (1910). “Saint Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux: Selections from His Letters, Meditations, Sermons, Hymns, and Other Writings, Rendered Into English by Horatio Grimley”

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• Lo, how to conquer evil thoughts?Easy! One thing, just try -Imagine you are the ocean vast,You are the boundless sky.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Ocean, Sky, Evil

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• Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Suffering follows an evil thought as the wheels of a cart follow the oxen that draws it. Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think. Joy follows a pure thought like a shadow that never leaves.

  Gautama Buddha

  Life, Attitude, Thinking

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• One reason why so many people are unhappy, not knowing why, is that they have burdened their minds with resentments. These evil thoughts pile right on top of happier and generous ones and smother them so that they never get expression. Resentments are a form of hate.... What a dearth of good will and co-operation there are among human beings and nations! What a world this would be if we all worked together, and as a popular diplomat recently expressed it-played together!

  George Matthew Adams

  Hate, Expression, Knowing

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