Pastoral Resources

So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.

There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.

Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil, and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder.

Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case.

The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice.

Whatever one thinks of President George W. Bush and his unilateralist crew, most of the people laughing at us do not think we are evil. What they think is that we are naive and incompetent.

It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death.

Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.

Tolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while wickedness reigns, their communities will be consumed.

American people are not evil. Given information, they will do the right thing. But they're not given the information.

We will fight evil, but we will do it from above 15,000 feet.

If someone is mean, harmful, or evil, they're out of my life. I cross them out.

The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.

Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.

There are heroes in evil as well as in good.

No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.

Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.

The words spoken by the leader of the free world can expand the frontiers of freedom or shrink them. When Ronald Reagan called on Gorbachev to 'tear down this wall,' a surge of confidence rose that would ultimately breach the bounds of the evil empire.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.