Evil Thoughts Quotes - Page 2

• The world's oldest wisdom: each evil thought infuses the mind, sooner or later, with an unholy fear.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Evil, Mind, World

  "Twenty Seven Thousand Aspiration Plants". Poetry series by Sri Chinmoy (#106, Part 2), 1983.

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• The best antidote against evils of all kinds, against the evil thoughts that haunt the soul, against the needless perplexities which distract the conscience, is to keep hold of the good we have. Impure thoughts will not stand against pure words and prayers and deeds. Little doubts will not avail against great certainties. Fix your affections on things above, and then you will less and less be troubled by the cares, the temptations, the troubles of things on earth.

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

  Prayer, Evil, Temptation

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 214), 1895.

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• As lovers of truth, we want to be close to it. Sometimes - evil thought, evil temptation - we want to be close to it by misleading others about its presence.

  Thomas L. Dumm

  Evil, Temptation, Want

  Interview with Jill Stauffer, believermag.com. January 1, 2009.

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• Purge me from every sinful blot;
  My idols all be cast aside:
  Cleanse me from every evil thought,
  From all the filth of self and pride.
  
  The hatred of the carnal mind
  Out of my flesh at once remove:
  Give me a tender heart, resigned,
  And pure, and full of faith and love.

  John Wesley

  Heart, Pride, Idols

  John Wesley (1827). “The Works of the Rev. John Wesley”, p.21

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• A nonviolent warrior knows no leaving the battle. He rushes into the mouth of himsa, never even once harbouring an evil thought.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Warrior, Evil, Leaving

  Mahatma Gandhi (1977). “Collected Works”

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• Every temptation that is resisted, every evil thought that is curbed, every desire that is subdued, every bitter word that is withheld, every noble aspiration that is encouraged, every sublime thought that is cultivated, adds to the development of will-force, good character, and attainment of eternal bliss and immortality.

  Sivananda

  Character, Evil, Temptation

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• Good action and thoughts produce consequences which tend to neutralize, or put a stop to, the result of evil thoughts and actions. For as we give up the life of self (and note that, like forgiveness, repentance and humility are also special cases of giving), as we abandon what the German mystics called "the I, me, mine," we make ourselves progressively capable of receiving grace. By grace we are enabled to know reality more completely, and this knowledge of reality helps us to give up more of the life of selfhood - and so on, in a mounting spiral of illumination and regeneration.

  Aldous Huxley

  Giving Up, Humility, Reality

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• The occurrence of an evil thought is an affliction; not to continue it is the remedy.

  Katsuki Sekida

  Evil, Affliction, Remedy

  Katsuki Sekida, Marc Allen (2013). “A Guide to Zen: Lessons from a Modern Master”, p.17, New World Library

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• I played Lucifer once, which is sort of a difficult character to research. I thought to myself, "We all have the potential to be selfish, to be cruel - at least to think evil thoughts, even if we don't ever act out on them. Even if we don't ever think we behave badly, we probably do more than we realize."

  Viggo Mortensen

  Selfish, Character, Thinking

  "Viggo Mortensen, Man of the World". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 5, 2015.

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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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• 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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• Slim Shady is just the evil thoughts that come into my head. Things I shouldn't be thinking about. Not to be gimmicky, but people should be able to determine when I'm serious and when I'm f... around. That's why a lot of my songs are funny. I got a warped sense of humor I guess.

  Eminem

  Song, Thinking, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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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• Good and evil thoughts are each a potent power, and they fill the universe.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Power, Evil, Universe

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2628, Manonmani Publishers

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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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• 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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• The man who has struggled bravely with the passions of the body, has fought ably against unclean spirits, and has expelled from his soul the conceptual images they provoke, should pray for a pure heart to be given him and for a spirit of integrity to be renewed within him (cf. Ps. 51:10). In other words, he should pray that by grace he may be completely emptied of evil thoughts and filled with divine thoughts, so that he may become a spiritual world of God, splendid and vast, wrought from moral, natural and theological forms of contemplation.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Spiritual, Integrity

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• Our true history is scarcely ever deciphered by others. The chief part of the drama is a monologue, or rather an intimate debate between God, our conscience, and ourselves. Tears, grieves, depressions, disappointments, irritations, good and evil thoughts, decisions, uncertainties, deliberations --all these belong to our secret, and are almost all incommunicable and intransmissible, even when we try to speak of them, and even when we write them down.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Disappointment, Drama, Writing

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• We are no more responsible for the evil thoughts that pass through our minds than a scarecrow for the birds which fly over the seedplot he has to guard. The sole responsibility in each case is to prevent them from settling.

  John Churton Collins

  Responsibility, Evil, Bird

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• What is the cause that one is hardened, and another readily moved to compunction? Listen! It springs from the will, in the latter case a good will, in the former an evil one. It springs also from the thoughts, in the former case evil thoughts, in the latter from the opposite; and similarly from actions, in the former case actions contrary to God, in the latter godly ones... it is by free choice of the will that every person either attains compunction and humility, or else becomes hard-hearted and proud.

  Symeon the New Theologian

  Christian, Spring, Humility

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• Evil thoughts and evil doing, cold, alone, you hang in ruins.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Evil, Ruins, Cold

  Song: Suicide Solution, Album: Blizzard of Ozz, 2009

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• He who has mastery over his incensive power has mastery also over the demons. But anyone who is a slave to it is a stranger to the ways of the Saviour, for as the Saviour enjoined us: 'Learn from Me; for I am gentle and humble in heart: and you will find rest for your souls' (Mt. 11:29). Now if a man abstains from food and drink, but becomes incensed to wrath because of evil thoughts, he is like a ship sailing the open sea with a demon for a pilot.

  Evagrius Ponticus

  Christian, Humble, Heart

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• Every Christian has the power to heal infirmities-not of others, but his own, and not of the body, but of the soul-that is, sins and sinful habits-and to cast out devils, rejecting evil thoughts sown by them, and extinguishing the excitement of passions enflamed by them.

  Theophan the Recluse

  Christian, Passion, Humility

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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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• You must learn that if you are a Christian, you will without a doubt experience all kinds of opposition and evil inclinations in the flesh. For when you have faith, there will be a hundred more evil thoughts and a hundred more temptations than before.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Evil, Temptation

  Martin Luther (1959). “What Luther says: an anthology”, Concordia Publishing House

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