Pastoral Resources

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.

Although war is evil, it is occasionally the lesser of two evils.

No evil can result from its inhibition more pernicious than its toleration.

In times such as these, people should recognize that evil knows no borders, knows no limits and knows no compassion. Those around the globe that value freedom must continue to persevere even in the darkest of times.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

All that's necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.

The face of evil is always the face of total need.

We can overcome evil with greater good.

The want of money is the root of all evil.

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.

However, without considering this connection, there is no doubt but that more good than evil, more delight than sorrow, arises from compassion itself; there being so many things which balance the sorrow of it.

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.

There is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.

A great book is like great evil.

Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent.