#evil

Poor God, how often He is blamed for all the suffering in the world. It’s like praising Satan for allowing all the good that happens. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#blame-game #god #good #good-and-evil #goodness

The devil's happy when the critics run you off. ↗

— Criss Jami

#certainty #confidence #criticism #critics #determination

The soul is an irrational, indivisible equation that perfectly expresses one thing: you. The soul would be no good to the devil if it could be destroyed. And it is not lost when placed in Satan's care, as is so often said. He always know exactly how to put his finger on it. ↗

— Joe Hill

#satan #soul #satan

How did I get where I am.” If your answer is anything but dumb luck then you are sadly deluding yourself. ↗

— Steve Merrick

#sci-fi #stevesevilempire #sci-fi

Believe in angels? Then believe in vampires. Believe in me. There are worse things on earth. ↗

— Anne Rice

#devil

Son, the greatest trick the Devil pulled was convincing the world there was only one of him. ↗

— David Wong

#evil #trick #devil

God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#devil #division #effort #god #labor

A national evil requires a national remedy; let not this any longer be delayed: let your minds expand, free from every narrow principle, and let the public good become the sole object of your united Christian efforts. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#become #christian #delayed #efforts #every

That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise. ↗

— Kenneth Scott Latourette

#before #command #conflict #demonstrated #disturbing

Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it? ↗

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

#ask #certain #evil #i #know