Pastoral Resources

According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings.

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.

Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.

There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite.

One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.

The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all evil in the world.

The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.

If the guilt of sin is so great that nothing can satisfy it but the blood of Jesus; and the filth of sin is so great that nothing can fetch out the stain thereof but the blood of Jesus, how great, how heinous, how sinful must the evil of sin be.

The only time in my career prior to that I played an evil character was in 'The Twilight Zone'.

The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.

If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?

Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power.

Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.

In order for a man to be truly evil, he must be a woman.

Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.

When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.

I believe that dogma is often evil.

An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.

It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.