Pastoral Resources

We all say, 'You don't have to run around playing all these tournaments and trying to conquer the world like Dr. Evil.'

Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.

Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.

I spent my first three weeks there on a wing with 21 murderers. I met some very evil people there but also some men who'd had no upbringing, no chance in life.

The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

Evil events from evil causes spring.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good.

The greatest evil is physical pain.

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

There is no possible source of evil except good.

Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.

God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.