#wicked

Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors. ↗

— Josh Billings

#god #most #neighbors #people #repent

But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist; the good are ever too luke-warm. ↗

— Algernon H. Blackwood

#enough #ever #good #hearts #leave

On sand, you can never be sure of anything. An ordinary shot can take a wicked deflection at the last moment. ↗

— Eric Cantona

#last #moment #never #ordinary #sand

In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to respect, and I loathe the wicked without doing them any injury. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#any #doing #endeavour #every #god

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts. ↗

— Carl Jung

#becomes #cannot #denied #evil #fact

No one ever became extremely wicked suddenly. ↗

— Juvenal

#ever #extremely #suddenly #wicked

There are certain wicked people in the world that you can't deal with except by force. ↗

— John Keegan

#deal #except #force #people #wicked

Our nation is being led astray by ungodly judges, mayors and governors, who are given to change, defying the Constitution and substituting their own wicked agendas. ↗

— David Wilkerson

#astray #being #change #constitution #defying

I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn't find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest substance – You oh God – towards inferior things, rejecting its own inner life and swelling with external matter. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#sin #wickedness #life

If the Lord should bring a wicked man to heaven, heaven would be hell to him; for he who loves not grace upon earth will never love it in heaven. ↗

— Christopher Love

#earth #grace #heaven #hell #him