Pastoral Resources

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

Evil is the interruption of a truth by the pressure of particular or individual interests.

Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me.

Be good to others, that will protect you against evil.

Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.

Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.

To fight against the infidels is Jihad; but to fight against your evil self is greater Jihad.

Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.

Terrorism is an evil that threatens all the countries in Europe. Vigorous cooperation in the European Union and worldwide is crucial in order to meet this evil head on.

Here we are in the 70's when everything really is horrible and it really stinks. The mass media, everything on television everything everywhere is just rotten. You know it's just really boring and really evil, ugly and worse.

Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.

Yet the evil still increased, and, like the parasite of barnacles on a ship, if it did not destroy the structure, it obstructed its fair, comfortable progress in the path of life.

An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness.

The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.

The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

We are all born marked for evil.

The world is not dialectical - it is sworn to extremes, not to equilibrium, sworn to radical antagonism, not to reconciliation or synthesis. This is also the principle of evil.

What is their potential for evil; what is their potential for wickedness? That's the only time that those characters become interesting to watch.