#wickedness

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness. ↗

— Confucius

#beginning #listen #see #wicked #wickedness

Isn’t that the way God works? She’d thought. He takes the things in our lives that are ugly, disgusting, and downright wicked, and transforms them into something magnificent. ↗

— J.E.B. Spredemann

#god #grace #mercy #transformation #ugliness

In fact, now you mention the subject, I have been very bad in my own small way. I don't think you should be so proud of that, though I am sure it must have been very pleasant. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#pleasure #wickedness #humor

Are people born wicked? Or do they have wickedness thrust upon them? ↗

— Glinda Wicked the musical

#wicked #wickedness #music

People couldn't become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#good-and-evil #temptation #wickedness #opportunity

Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion. ↗

— Lucretius

#heights #men #religion #such #which

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason. ↗

— James Madison

#folly #hoped #much #progress #reason

In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil. ↗

— Anna Jameson

#begins #either #ends #evil #fanaticism

Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness. ↗

— Sophocles

#indeed #sister #wickedness

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#more #occasions #other #put #sin