To give up doing evil is more important than making merit.
It is told that Buddha, going out to look on life, was greatly daunted by death. "They all eat one another!" he cried, and called it evil. This process I examined, changed the verb and said, "They all feed one another," and called it good.
Faith is, necessary to explain anything, and to reconcile the foreknowledge of God with human evil.
They kind of look like evil lawn gnomes
Evil influence is like a nicotine patch, you cannot help but absorb what sticks to you.
We have to bring out the truth about how dark and dangerous and evil the taxi side is.
We are now so far advanced in our denial of evil that we want to rationalise it away.
Thou wilt lament Hereafter, when the evil shall be done And shall admit no cure.
There is nothing to fear from gods, There is nothing to feel in death, Good can be attained, Evil can be endured.
. . . but this is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, about making prison merely a hygienic environment like a hospital, of healing sin by slow scientific methods. The fallacy of the whole thing is that evil is a matter of active choice whereas disease is not.
You know what mom told me once? She said that everyone has some evil inside them, and the first step to loving anyone is to recognize the same evil in ourselves, so we're able to forgive them.
And out of good still to find means of evil.
Magic isn't inherently evil. But it does seem to be terribly bad for people.
Pointless, needless suffering and pain? I don’t suppose it would help if I told you that was the way life is. The good suffer, the evil flourish, and all that is mortal passes away.
Let sanguine healthy-mindedness do its best with its strange power of living in the moment and ignoring and forgetting, still the evil background is really there to be thought of, and the skull will grin in at the banquet.
I think it's obscene that many people are starving to death from anorexia. It's been said many times, it's trite. But when so much evil is going on against, for example the Afghani people, where women are being so oppressed that a woman's body is a battlefield.
The prayers of God's saints strengthen the unborn generation against the desolating waves of sin and evil.
Animals do neither good nor evil. They do as they must do. We may call what they do harmful or useful, but good and evil belong to us, who chose to choose what we do. [. . . ] The animals need only be and do. We're yoked, and they're free. So to be with an animal is to know a little freedom.
One of the most astonishing things about Jesus is that as God he actually chose to come into our fallen, sick, twisted, unjust, evil, cruel, painful world and be with us to suffer like us and for us. Meanwhile, we spend most of our time trying to figure out how to avoid the pain and evil of this world while reading dumb books about the rapture just hoping to get out.
Our choices are truncated in evil's presence.