Best mean & evil Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Sin, also for those who don't have faith, exists when one goes against one's conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.”

Mean Facts Action Faces Evil Sin Decision Goodness Conscience Have Faith Our Actions Malice

Author:Pope Francis

“He who devoutly strives to attain wisdom and is on his guard against the invisible powers, should pray that both natural discrimination - whose light is but limited - and the illuminating grace of the Spirit abide in him. The first by means of practice trains the flesh in virtue, the second illuminates the intellect so that it chooses above all else companionship with wisdom; and through wisdom it destroys the strongholds of evil and pulls down 'all the self-esteem that exalts itself against the knowledge of God' (II Cor. 10:5).”

“Being Christian is not just obeying orders but means being in Christ, thinking like him, acting like him, loving like him; it means letting him take possession of our life and change it, transform it, and free it from the darkness of evil and sin. ... Let us show the joy of being children of God, the freedom that living in Christ gives us which is true freedom, the freedom that saves us from the slavery of evil, of sin and of death!”

Thinking Giving Mean Children Shows Christian Joy Order Evil Christ Sin Acting Darkness Our Lives Slavery Possession Child Of God Obeying True Freedom Life And Change

Author:Pope Francis

“I seek no values by means of evil, nor do I surrender my values to evil.”

Mean Values Evil Surrender

Author:John Galt

“We can think of Lent as a time to eradicate evil or cultivate virtue, a time to pull up weeds or to plant good seeds. Which is better is clear, for the Christian ideal is always positive rather than negative. A person is great not by the ferocity of his hatred of evil, but by the intensity of his love for God. Asceticism and mortification are not the ends of a Christian life; they are only the means. The end is charity. Penance merely makes an opening in our ego in which the Light of God can pour. As we deflate ourselves, God fills us. And it is God’s arrival that is the important event.”

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

Mind Mean Body Evil Awareness Mind And Body

Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

“Worship means reverence and humility. It means revering your real self and humbling delusions. If you can wipe out evil desires and harbor good thoughts, even if nothing shows, it's worship. Such form is its real form.”

Ifs Mean Real Self Shows Form Desire Evil Humility Worship Delusion Reverence Wipe Harbors Good Thoughts Humbling Real Self

Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

“Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.”

Men Mean Art Evil Art Is Chaotic

Book:Great Short Works of Aldous Huxley

Source: Great Short Works of Aldous Huxley

“There is something mean in human nature that prefers to think evil, that gives a willing ear and a ready welcome to calumny, a sort of jealousy of goodness and greatness and things of good report.”

Thinking Giving Humans Mean Evil Human Nature Greatness Willing Ready Goodness Ears Welcome Jealousy Reports Calumny Calumny Is

Book:Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays

Source: Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays

“Down in Louisiana where the alligators grow so mean, there lived a girl that I swear to the world made the alligators look tame.”

World Looks Mean Made Girl Evil Grows Swear Misogyny Louisiana Alligators Evil Women

Author:Tony Joe White

“I'm even afraid to lay down with you at night, because when you go to bed at night, mean woman, you got an ice pick in your hand.”

Mean Hands Night Evil Bed Picks Lays Ice Misogyny Evil Women

Author:John Lee Hooker

“Forgiveness does not mean ignoring what has been done or putting a false label on an evil act. It means, rather, that the evil act no longer remains as a barrier to the relationship. Forgiveness is a catalyst creating the atmosphere necessary for a fresh start and a new beginning.”

Mean Doe Has Beens Done Evil Creating Forgiveness Remains Labels Atmosphere Barriers New Beginnings Catalyst Fresh Start Loving Your Enemies

Book:A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings

Source: A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings

“The wise maketh every thing the means of advantage; and with the same countenance beholdeth he all the faces of fortune: he governeth the good, he conquereth the evil; he is unmov'd in all. Presume not in prosperity, neither despair thou in adversity.”

Mean Faces Evil Wise Despair Advantage Adversity Fortune Prosperity Countenance

Author:Robert Dodsley

“And now because you are His child, live as a child of God; be redeemed from the life of evil, which is false to your nature, into the life of goodness, which is the truth of your being. Scorn all that is mean; hate all that is false; struggle with all that is impure Live the simple, lofty life which befits an heir of immortality.”

Mean Children Hate Evil Simple Struggle Goodness Immortality Scorn Lofty Child Of God Heirs Redeemed

Author:Frederick William Robertson

“I've got evil in me as much as anyone, some desires that scare me. Even if I don't give in to them, just having them scares the living bejesus out of me sometimes. I'm no saint, the way you kid about. But I've always walked the line, walked that goddamned line. It's a mean mother of a line, straight and narrow, sharp as a razor, cuts right into you when you walk it long enough. You're always bleeding on that line, and sometimes you wonder why you don't just step off and walk in the cool grass.”

Ifs Way Giving Mean Long Sometimes Enough Kids Mother Desire Evil Lines Walks Wonder Steps Cutting Saint Grass Scare Bleeding Razors

Book:Dark Rivers of the Heart: A Novel

Source: Dark Rivers of the Heart: A Novel

“When great evils happen, I am in the habit of looking out for what good may arise from them as consolations to us, and Providence has in fact so established the order of things, as that most evils are the means of producing some good.”

May Mean Facts Happens Order Evil Habit Arise Providence Consolation

Book:Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

Source: Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts

“What we are accustomed to decry as great social evils, will, for the most part, be found to be only the out-growth of our own perverted life; and though we may endeavor to cut them down and extirpate them by means of law, they will only spring up again with fresh luxuriance in some other form, unless the conditions of human life and character are radically improved.”

Humans May Mean Character Form Law Evil Found Social Growth Cutting Conditions Spring Down And Human Life Endeavor Accustomed Social Evils

Book:Self-help

Source: Self-help

“Benefits bestowed upon the evil-disposed, increase their means of injuring you.”

Mean Evil Benefits Increase

Book:Aesop's Fables - Complete Collection

Source: Aesop's Fables - Complete Collection

“The worst evil that you can do, psychologically, is to laugh at yourself. That means spitting in your own face.”

Mean Faces Evil Can Do Laughing Worst Laugh At Yourself

Author:Ayn Rand

“The acceptance of ambiguity implies more than the commonplace understanding that some good things and some bad things happen to us. It means that we know that good and evil are inextricably intermixed in human affairs; that they contain, and sometimes embrace, their opposites; that success may involve failure of a different kind, and failure may be a kind of triumph.”

Source: Clearing the ground

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