#evil

The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil; to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil; and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so. ↗

— George Whitefield

#against #appearance #christians #duty #evil

For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing. ↗

— Simon Wiesenthal

#flourish #good #good men #good men to do nothing #men

Love is without a doubt the laziest theory for the meaning of life, but when it actually comes a time to do it we find just enough energy to over-complicate life again. Any devil can love, whom he himself sees as, a good person who has treated him well, but to love also the polar opposite is what separates love from fickle emotions. ↗

— Criss Jami

#bad-people #complication #devil #emotions #energy

He paused, twisting his goatee, considering the law in Deuteronomy that forbade clothes with mixed fibers. A problematic bit of Scripture. A matter that required thought. "Only the devil wants man to have a wide range of lightweight and comfortable styles to choose from," he murmured at last, trying out a new proverb. "Although there may be no forgiveness for polyester. On this one matter, Satan and the Lord are in agreement. ↗

— Joe Hill

#deuteronomy #devil #god #polyester #proverb

What is discovered may be abused, but that does not mean the discovery was evil. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#evil #life

The devil made me do it. ↗

— Flip Wilson

#made #me

This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling Satan's fiery darts, know assuredly that there is a devil. ↗

— George Whitefield

#darts #devil #discourse #feeling #fiery

Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#evil #indifference #me

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

#chooses #evil #good #happiness #man

The way I wanted to write it, is with a hero, or sort of a pure character who was the protagonist. And the antagonists were these demonic evil children, cause when you're a kid, seven or eight years old, and you're looking at the world around you - everything seems black or white, good or bad. ↗

— John Wozniak

#bad #black #black or white #cause #character