Pastoral Resources

We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.

'God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.

It's okay for Christians throughout centuries to exterminate races and for their priests to rape little kids throughout decades, but trying to give the people the power to think and be individual, that's evil?

Every Christian will allow that sin is an evil, and that it is our duty not to commit sin.

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

Struggle is strengthening. Battling with evil gives us the power to battle evil even more.

If somebody plans to carry out a series of murders... then this is obviously an evil and pre-meditated attack and in that case, there could be a deterrent effect.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.

He uses his good powers for evil, and that's when it gets to the dangerous side of it.

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.

Magazines and advertising are flogging the idea that you have to keep changing things and get something new. I think that's balls - evil. But obviously that's your livelihood.

This is a struggle of good and evil. And we're the good.

As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.

The difference being that in films, unlike in life, good does always win over evil in the end.

We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reason that psychologists study the minds of murderers and rapists... to understand how those evil things came about.

Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.

I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.

I've learned a lot about good and evil. They are not always what they appear to be.

Wilde is the greatest force for evil that has appeared in Europe during the last 350 years.

If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.