Moreover, man carries in his heart the desire always to wield his scientific knowledge in service of the greater good. He would of course never use it for destructive purposes. Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! ...
Jacques TardiTags: humanity evil dark-humor dark-humour
Thus, death begets death; evil begets evil.
Lloyd AlexanderGod can allow you to pass through storms and get to your success. But what the devil loves to do is to make you not to realize it that the storm is over. He wishes to keep you in condemnation even at the time you have to feel liberated.
Israelmore AyivorTags: success liberty love devil persistence evil god mind endurance sin salvation jesus storm satan liberation perseverance save food-for-thought jesus-christ redemption condemnation christ feel win reverend pastor garden-of-eden storms condemn endure bishop persist low-self-esteem persevere redeem self-condemnation israelmore-ayivor unworthiness arcbishop low-self-image self-unworthiness
The devil can get you through your flesh. He knows the button to press on your flesh and have a way into your mind. The flesh becomes a transport medium for evil things if not killed for God. If Christ makes a home in your mind, satan can't get there.
Israelmore AyivorTags: devil evil soul mind flesh thought sin temptation jesus satan sermon food-for-thought jesus-christ thoughts christ satanic press evangelism preaching pastor sinner bishop worldliness evil-thoughts israelmore-ayivor the-word-of-god arcbishop temp temptor
The Rochester group [of VOTF], however, was met with some concern as they found it hard to believe my account as it unfolded before them. I feel that some people have a hard time with the truths around us, not only the sexual abuse by priests, but all bad things. I call it chosen ignorance. This modified form of ignorance is found in people who, if confronted with certain truths realize that they have to accept them and thereby acknowledge evil, and that scares them. Opening up and letting the truth in might knock them off their perceived center. It is too hard, period."
(VOTF - Voice of the Faithful - a Catholic group that wants to change the Church, keep the faith.)
Tags: truth evil faith church ignorance victim catholic disbelief priest faithful sexual-abuse survivor abuse priest-abuse confronted pedophile-priests
If Christ has died for me, I cannot trifle with the evil that killed my best Friend.
Charles Haddon SpurgeonTags: evil sin intolerance gratitude holiness sanctification
The root of humanly caused evil is not man's animal nature, not territorial aggression, or innate selfishness, but our need to gain self-esteem, deny our mortality, and achieve a heroic self-image. Our desire for the best is the cause of the worst.
Sam KeenTags: inspirational philosophy evil
He was the devil in a Sunday hat; he dressed and acted like a civil man, but inside he was just hatred and filth. Then, I guess after what I was planning to do to save a life, I wasn't too dissimilar to him.
Mercy CortezTags: devil justice evil messy-and-shattered
Richard Dawkins regards faith as an evil to be eliminated; he takes all religious faith to be blind faith. (Dawkins says) ‘Scientific belief is based on publicly checkable evidence, religious faith not only lacks evidence, its independence from evidence is its joy, shouted from the rooftops.’ However, taking Dawkins own advice we ask: where is the evidence that religious faith is not based on evidence? Mainstream Christianity will insist that faith and evidence are inseparable. Indeed, faith is a response to evidence, not a rejoicing in the absence of evidence. The apostle Paul says what many pioneers of modern science believed, that nature itself is part of the evidence for the existence of God ,‘ Since the creation of the world, God’s invisible qualities- his eternal power and divine nature – have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made. So that men are without an excuse.’ Dawkins’ definition of faith turns out to be the direct opposite of the biblical one. Curious that he does not seem to be aware of the discrepancy.
John C. LennoxTags: evil christianity faith religious richard-dawkins paul biblical blind dawkins apostle-paul
Nothing in the world delights a truly religious people so much as consigning them to eternal damnation.
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