“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!” ThinkingGivingMeanChildrenShowsChristianJoyOrderEvilChristSinActingDarknessOur LivesSlaveryPossessionChild Of GodObeyingTrue FreedomLife And Change Author:Pope Francis
“When religion has said its last word, there is little that we need other than God Himself. The evil habit of seeking God-and effectively prevents us from finding God in full revelation. In the and lies our great woe. If we omit the and we shall soon find God, and in Him we shall find that for which we have all our lives been secretly longing.” IfsNeedsLittlesSaidLastsLyingEvilOur LivesHabitFindingsLongingSeekingRevelationsWoeLast WordsSeeking GodFinding God Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer
“Our minds work like a garden. It is fertile ground that accepts any and everything we plant. Good or evil, constructive or destructive, our lives will bear the fruit of the seeds we plant in our minds.” ThinkingMindEvilAcceptingOur LivesBearsGardenPlantFruitSeedsDestructiveConstructiveFertileFertile Ground Book:Acts Of Faith: Daily Meditations for People of Colour Source: Acts Of Faith: Daily Meditations for People of Colour
“The oppressive weight of disaster and tragedy in our lives does not arise from a high percentage of evil among the summed total of all acts, but from the extraordinary power of exceedingly rare incidents of depravity to inflict catastrophic damage, especially in our technological age when airplanes can become powerful bombs. (An even more evil man, armed only with a longbow, could not have wreaked such havoc at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415.)” MenDoeAgeEvilPowerfulOur LivesBattleWeightTragedyExtraordinaryDisasterAriseDamageBombsAirplaneTechnologicalPercentagesIncidentsDepravityHavocEvil Man Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“None of us ever escape the first few years of our lives. They make a mould into which we are cast, and though it may be broken, and we turned loose, some remnant of it, some intangible evil or lovely thing or both, will remain with us, like the odor to a flower, or the smoothness to a piece of ivory. It is part of the immortality of youth.” YearsFirstsMayEvilPiecesOur LivesChildhoodYouthFlowerBrokenCastsLovelyImmortalityIntangibleIvoryMouldOdorRemnantsLovely Things Book:A Victorian Village: Reminiscences of Other Days Source: A Victorian Village: Reminiscences of Other Days
“I think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it. I think after we ingest some of the cruelty of the world, it takes years off of our lives, but it also gives us wisdom and a little grace, hopefully a sense of compassion.” ThinkingWorldGivingYearsLittlesEvilSidesCompassionForeverGraceOur LivesEffectsChangedOvercomingComplicatedCrueltyHopefullySide EffectsOvercoming Evil Author:Adam Rapp
“At last a vision has been vouchsafed to us of our life as a whole. We see the bad with the good.... With this vision we approach new affairs. Our duty is to cleanse, to reconsider, to restore, to correct the evil without impairing the good, to purify and humanize every process of our common life, without weakening or sentimentalizing it.” Has BeensWholeLastsEvilProcessCommonVisionOur LivesDutyApproachAffairWeakeningCommon Life Author:Woodrow Wilson
“For good or evil, a line has been passed in our political history; and something that we have known all our lives is dead. I will take only one example of it: our politicians can no longer be caricatured.” Has BeensHumorPoliticalLife IsEvilPoliticsLinesKnownOur LivesExamplePoliticianPolitical History Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“People, especially the liberals, just live in this world where if anything is said that offends anybody even a little bit, not only does that person have to apologize; sometimes they have to go away forever. Go away, bad person. My analysis of this is that most of us don't do anything decent in our life. I'm not saying we're evil. I'm just saying we don't make a contribution, so the way they [liberals] think they're making a contribution is to point at the bad people [which] is somehow even more pathetic.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldWayLittlesPersonsDoeSaidSometimesEvilBitsForeverOur LivesThis WorldLittle BitAnalysisDecentContributionGoing AwayApologizingPatheticBad PeopleJust LiveJust Saying Author:Bill Maher
“One talks much more about the evil than about the good. That is a paradox. We should only talk about the good to lighten up our existence. Chase anxiousness/fear away for a moment before it sneaks back in again to our life.” ShouldMomentsEvilExistenceOur LivesParadoxSneak Author:Odd Nerdrum
“It is not enough simply to try to resist evil or empty our lives of sin. We must also fill our lives with righteousness” TryingEnoughEvilSinOur LivesEmptyRighteousness Author:Ezra Taft Benson
“Evil is real - and powerful. It has to be fought, not explained away, not fled. And God is against evil all the way. So each of us has to decide where we stand, how we're going to live our lives. We can try to persuade ourselves and wink at evil. We can say that it isn't so bad after all, maybe even try to call it fun by clothing it in silks and velvets. We can compromise with it, keep quiet about it , and say it's none of our business. Or we can work on God's side, listen for His orders on strategy against the evil, no matter how horrible it is, and know that He can transform it.” KnowsWayTryingRealMatterOrderEvilFunSidesPowerfulOur LivesQuietStrategyHorribleCompromiseClothingsSilkVelvetChristy Huddleston Author:Catherine Marshall
“People believe Loose Change because it proposes a closed world: comprehensible, controllable, small. Despite the great evil which runs it, it is more companionable than the chaos which really governs our lives, a world without destination or purpose.” PeopleWorldBelieveRunningPurposeEvilOur LivesChaosDespiteDestinationProposeLoose Change Author:George Monbiot
“The clock is ticking. It's time to stand up. Reject the lesser evil and that propaganda. Reject the lesser evil. Fight for the greater good like our lives depend on it, because they do. We're running out of time. It's time to stand up.” RunningFightingEvilGreaterOur LivesDependsClockPropagandaRejectsGreater GoodLesser EvilRunning Out Of TimeClock Is Ticking Author:Jill Stein