Distraction serves evil more than any other mental state.
It is much more intelligent, more practical, to be good rather than evil.
Nearly all the evils in the Church have arisen from bishops desiring power more than light. They want authority, not outlook.
And I must believe that man has the power to know the right, to choose between good and evil and know that his choice has made a difference.
Neutrality in things good or evil is both odious and prejudicial; but in matters of an indifferent nature is safe and commendable. Herein taking of parts maketh sides, and breaketh unity. In an unjust cause of separation, he that favoreth both parts may perhaps have least love of either side, but hath most charity in himself.
It seems to me it's always the evil we refuse to see that does us the greatest harm.
They kind of look like evil lawn gnomes
Nationalism and patriotism are the two most evil forces that I know of in this century or in any century and cause more wars and more death and more destruction to the soul and to human life than anything else.
It is well worth the efforts of a lifetime to have attained knowledge which justifies an attack on the root of all evil. . . which asserts that because forms of evil have always existed in society, therefore they must always exist.
The evil in our desires typically does not lie in what we want, but that we want it too much.
The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.
Evils have their comfort, good none can support.
At a certain depth of distress, the poor, in their stupor, groan no longer over evil, and are no longer thankful for good.
Money is not good or evil. It has no morals or intentions on its own. Money reflects the character of the user.
It's our greed to extract more and more from good that turns it into evil.
And war-the worst form of evil!
The best lesson that any people can learn is that there is no patent cure-all which will make the body politic perfect, and that any man who is able glibly to answer every question as to how to deal with the evils of the body politic is at best a foolish visionary and at worst an evil-minded quack.
The greatest evil that one has to fight constantly, every minute of the day until one dies, is the worst part of oneself.
The crux of the matter is whether total war in its present form is justifiable, even when it serves a just purpose. Does it not have material and spiritual evil as its consequences which far exceed whatever good might result? When will our moralists give us an answer to this question?
Both mind and heart when given up to reveries and dreaminess, have a thousand avenues open for the entrance of evil.