#evil

The roots of any evil deed can be traced to the perpetrator's refusal to experience pain. ↗

— Keith Ablow

#experience

The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean. I know this by my own experience, & to this day I cherish an unappeased bitterness against the unfaithful guardians of my young life, who not only permitted but compelled me to read an unexpurgated Bible through before I was 15 years old. None can do that and ever draw a clean sweet breath again on this side of the grave. ↗

— Mark Twain

#censorship #christianity #evil #hubris #moral-corruption

You're like a half-tamed creature, still shy of the bridle. 'Except you enthrall me, never shall be free.' But freedom is an illusion, anyway. ↗

— Nenia Campbell

#creepy #dangerous #dating #evil-men #scary

To the primitive mind, everything is either friendly or hostile; but experience has shown that friendliness and hostility are not the conceptions by which the world is to be understood. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#experience

God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials. ↗

— William Peter Blatty

#faith #faith

I know [Umbridge] by reputation and I'm sure she's no Death Eater-" "She's foul enough to be one..." "Yes, but the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#dolores-umbridge #evil #good #harry-potter #sirius-black

Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#faith #good #good-and-evil #inspiration #uniqueness

On the subject of who is to blame for our disunity - “The easy conclusion- that the devil is at work trying to destroy the church- is true, but itʼs not the whole story. Of course the enemy is at work doing that. But closer examination shows that much of the blame falls squarely on the shoulders of the church itself-on believers in god-and how our own devilish deeds have alienated other followers of God. Sadly, weʼve done the devilʼs work for him. ↗

— Ed Galisewski

#christian #christians #church #devil #faith

As far as God goes, I _am_ a nonbeliever. Still am. But when it comes to a devil---well, that's something else. ↗

— William Peter Blatty

#faith #faith

The truth is, the Devil's job is easy. ↗

— Tyler Edwards

#devil #faith #satan #sin #truth