#evil

God, in his wisdom, sent us his angels, to whisper our names on the wind. God, in his anger, released his devils, to pester our souls to the end. ↗

— Sam Cheever

#devils #god #anger

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#door #evil #greater #invariably #lesser

He felt that there is a loose balance of good and evil, and that the art of living consists in getting the greatest good out of the greatest evil. ↗

— Machado de Assis

#evil #good #art

Like sin itself, Satan appeals to the senses. He originated and perfected the art of disguising evil as good. ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

#sin #art

They're power-hungry, the mundane said of the magical people. They're immoral, people said, and they're scary. Playing with the dark arts could plunge me into evil. I'd be pulled toward depravity. Blasphemy would begin to seem like truth, bad like good, God like Satan. It had happened to people through the centuries, they said. And they were right. All that did happen. ↗

— Christine Wicker

#evil #magical-people #mundanes #art

None of us can avoid being contaminated by the world's evils; it's all a matter of what attitude you take towards them. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#evil #attitude

If you find yourself about to complain, think of your many blessings and rejoice! Don't give the devil a ride today, because then he'll want to drive full-time. So, kick his attitude of complaining spirit out of your blessed zone. Don't give the devil NOTHING!! ↗

— Anita R. Sneed-Carter

#complaining #devil #rejoice #zone #attitude

I can think of nothing that would fill Satan with greater glee or better signify the ultimate success of its conquest of the human race than an attitude on the part of humans that it is impossible to identify evil. ↗

— M Scott Peck

#theology #attitude

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty. ↗

— David Hume

#beholder #evil #god #perception #religion

When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, there arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, there arises the recognition of evil. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#beauty