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the Week of Proper 8 / Ordinary 13
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Quotations regarding 'Evil'

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We took this challenge before our Lord and our conscience, and it must be done, because this man, Hitler, he is the ultimate evil.
Claus von Stauffenberg, German Soldier (1907-1944)
Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.
Ralph Steadman, British Cartoonist (1936-  )
Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference between good and evil is about as relevant as changing channels.
Ralph Steadman, British Cartoonist (1936-  )
I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game.
Wilhelm Steinitz, American Celebrity (1836-1900)
Chess is so inspiring that I do not believe a good player is capable of having an evil thought during the game.
Wilhelm Steinitz, American Celebrity (1836-1900)
There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls.
Adlai Stevenson, American Politician (1900-1965)
All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.
Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer (1850-1894)
Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.
Adlai E. Stevenson, American Politician (1900-1965)
It is the eve of St. George's Day. Do you not know that tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have full sway?
Bram Stoker, Irish Writer (1847-1912)
How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.
Lytton Strachey, English Critic (1880-1932)
Now that we have a democracy and you can go back and the airport air is not laden with evil any more, you can actually breathe oxygen when you land in Johannesburg.
Janet Suzman, South African Actress (1939-  )
The quality of the Lord's church on earth, cannot be seen by any man, so long as he lives in the world, still less how the church in process of time has turned aside from good to evil.
Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish Scientist (1688-1772)
The act of exploring what the men are, and moreover the separation of the good from the evil, is visitation; and the good are then removed, and the evil are left behind.
Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish Scientist (1688-1772)
He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.
Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish Scientist (1688-1772)
It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.
Jonathan Swift, Irish Writer (1667-1745)
I don't believe in devils. Indifference and misunderstandings can create evil situations. Most of the time, people who appear to be evil are really victims of evil deeds.
Max von Sydow, Swedish Actor (1929-  )
Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.
Tacitus, Roman Historian
He who busies himself with things other than improvement of his own self becomes perplexed in darkness and entangled in ruin. His evil spirits immerse him deep in vices and make his bad actions seem handsome.
Ali ibn Abi Talib, Clergyman
The problem of evil... Why does God permit it? Or, if God is omnipotent, in which case permission and creation are the same, why did God create it?
William Temple, -
Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.
Tertullian, Roman Author
 
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