Saint Augustine Quotes, Vanity Quotes, Evil Quotes

He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as evil, at once both carnally desires the soul, and carnally flies the flesh, because he feels thus from human vanity, not from divine truth.

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Evil is not any superhuman, but it is HUMAN.

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Disturbers are to be rebuked, the low spirited to be encouraged, the infirm to be supported, objectors confuted, the treacherous guarded against, the unskilled taught, the lazy aroused, the contentious restrained, the haughty repressed, the poor relieved, the oppressed liberated, the good approved, the evil borne with, and all are to be loved!

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My definition of evil is unfriendliness.

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For every life and every act consequence of good and evil can be shown and as in time results of many deeds are blended so good and evil in the end become confounded.

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There is yet something remaining for the dead, and some far better thing for the good than for the evil.

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The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in spirit and energy it awakens.

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Lord of Lords, grant us the good whether we pray for it or not, but evil keep from us, even though we pray for it.

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This is Heaven, when pain and evil cease, and when the Benignant Principle, untrammelled and uncontrolled, visits in the fulness of its power the universal frame of things.

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This is the course of every evil deed, that, propagating still it brings forth evil.

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Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.

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Sometimes we are devils to ourselves When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, Presuming on their changeful potency.

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There can be no Good Will. Will is always Evil; it is persecution to others or selfishness.

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If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.

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The evil that machinery is doing is not merely in the consequence of its work but in the fact that it makes men themselves machines also.

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For, were it not good that evil things should also exist, the omnipotent God would almost certainly not allow evil to be, since beyond doubt it is just as easy for Him not to allow what He does not will, as for Him to do what He will.

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Many a reformer perishes in his removal of rubbish,--and that makes the offensiveness of the class. They are partial; they are notequal to the work they pretend. They lose their way; in the assault on the kingdom of darkness, they expend all their energy on some accidental evil, and lose their sanity and power of benefit.

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Remember, one just man causes the Devil greater affliction than a million blind believers.

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It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil.

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Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.

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