#evil

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#conception #evil #form #free #good

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#enough #evil #give #know #love

The Devil, can sometimes do a very gentlemanly thing. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#gentlemanly #sometimes #thing #very

A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today! ↗

— Billy Sunday

#backsliding #cast #causes #church #conversion

Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his. ↗

— Billy Sunday

#devil #hell #hell is #highest #highest reward

God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity. ↗

— Billy Sunday

#christianity #church #devil #god #god almighty

Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in. ↗

— Billy Sunday

#door #him #inviting #keyhole #looking

The devil says I'm out, but the Lord says I'm safe. ↗

— Billy Sunday

#i #lord #out #safe #says

He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

#evil #punishment #who

In the Christian world... it is believed that angels were created at the beginning, and that heaven was formed of them; and that the Devil or Satan was an angel of light, who, becoming rebellions, was cast down with his crew, and that this was the origin of hell. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

#angels #becoming #beginning #believed #cast