Hope starts as a promise made to yourself, the first drop of rain in a parched land, the first step onto dry earth for a shipwreck survivor. It is a listening crowd for a lonely...

The fact that you are possessed by a demon does not mean you must become evil. Being evil is a choice, just as being good is a choice. If you let the demon take over,...

It is well, I think, for us to learn to tell evil from good; but it has its price, as everything does. We leave our evil friend behind.

And one of the elders of the city , said , speak to us of good and evil.And he answered :You are good in countless ways , and you are not evil when you are...

Everybody has good and bad forces working with them, against them, and within them.

A book is a private thing, citizen; it belongs to the one who writes it and to the one who reads it. Like the mind itself, a book is a private space. Within that space,...

Good and evil has no passport; it speaks in different tongues, wears many skins, and exists everywhere, even in the same person

I believe that there is good in everyone, even an evil pirate such as you.

Are the great spiritual teachings really advocating that we fight evil because we are on the side of light, the side of peace? Are they telling us to fight against that other ‘undesirable’ side, the...

Men who believe in good and evil, and who believe that good should win, should watch for those moments when it is possible to play God

It’s going to be like an…aura, I guess.”He looked down at me and raised an eyebrow. “Explain?””Like even though there are outside forces pushing through the walls, in here it’s like a bubble of goodness....

How is it possible that anyone can believe in a kind of God of Evil named Satan or Devil? Surely, evil lies within oneself.

People couldn’t become truly holy, he said, unless they also had the opportunity to be definitively wicked.

He had memorized the entire Qur’an and lectured on the nature of evil, which, like a shadow, cannot exist independently of the good silhouettes.

The Lord makes firm the steps of the one who delights in him; though he may stumble, he will not fall, for the Lord upholds him with his hand.

Maybe I was a fool to turn my back on him after his warnings, but the bad guys didn’t warn you first. No, the truly wicked ones lured you in with kindness and then blindsided...

One never learns how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her – is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if...

Goodness will always win over evil, no matter how much the evil attempts to break you. More than that, you are never truly in darkness. Sometimes, all you need to do is turn on the...

In each of us, two natures are at war – the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, and one of them must conquer. But in our own hands...

He never spoke with any bitterness at all, no matter how awful the things he said. Are there really people without resentment, without hate, she wondered. People who never go cross-grained to the universe? Who...

If the universe is trying to maintain balance, we must aid this by ensuring that Good is not enjoyed excessively. Or else the universe will re-balance itself by creating Evil to counteract Good. That is...

karmic reassignment”) manages to fall slightly below the level of those undergraduate talk sessions. The Manichean stand-off leads Mailer, in closing, to speculate on what God might desire politically and to say: ‘In different times,...

That’s the world out there, little green apples and infectious disease.

Love is the only thing that can touch our soul and change our heart.

Fundamental rule in your life, is to know what your deserve in life and getting what you deserve. That’s winning always.

In all Thénardier’s outpourings, the words and gestures, the fury blazing in his eyes, this explosion of an evil nature brazenly exposed, the mixture of bravado and abjectness, arrogance, pettiness, rage, absurdity; the hodgepodge of...

Nature is not kind; it is not good. Do you really think nature cares about any individual living thing?

All people may not always know those who are not actually good, but they sooner or later get to know all those who are always relatively good.

For she had discovered that as well as the evil web there was another. This too bound spirits together, but not in a tangle, it was a patterned web and one could see the silver...

Many have stood their ground and faced the darkness when it comes for them. Fewer come for the darkness and force it to face them.

I am grateful for all the trials for that made be a better person.

This isn’t the work of our people, Delilah. It’s a corruption of power. The gods are neutral, good and evil manifests in the deeds of mortals.”Or, just maybe– The power is our own and the...

Beware when wrong-doing is called good and right-doing is called evil.

Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill.

Surely God is good to Israel, to those who are pure in heart. But as for me, my feet had almost slipped; I had nearly lost my foothold. For I envied the arrogant when I saw the...

Here dwells a snake, one thousand miles longCoiled, one thousand miles deepEyes like candy, it has eyes like candyHard and blue, but soft as kittens feetOut of sight or in the element of lightIt could...

For when once people have begun to believe that prosperity is the reward of virtue, their next calamity is obvious. If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the...

Good and evil have nothing to do with gods. It has to do with us.

Sometimes, the wicked will tell us things just to confuse us–to haunt our thoughts long after we’ve faced them.

right” side and therefore will win. Right makes might.

If one cannot gain recognition foranything else, he can rest well with the assurance that he is “good,” which in most cases equates with “right”. Were it not for an evil to rail against he...

Well — think about this. What if all your actions and choices, good or bad, make no difference to God? What if the pattern is pre-set? No no — hang on — this is a...

I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good,” the Golux said, “by accident and happenchance. I had high hopes of being Evil when I was two, but in my youth I came...

A joyful soul, a grateful spirit full of love and light!

Deep down, she’s a good person, Diana is,” Caine said, and sighed. “Deep down, I’m not. But she is.

No one, good or evil, ceases to exist; life is energy and energy cannot be created or destroyed; it is recycled.

Whoever hurt you had a choice to hurt you or love you. It was his choice whoever he is, not yours. It is the same as how Hank made the choice to beat on me...

If a person finds the negative people in his network, then he needs to mind or mend his own nature than others for his basic grounding decides only the level of acidic or toxic surrounding.

[…] it would be false to say that because we’re on the side of justice, we can go ahead and destroy our opponents and the world will be at peace. […] Now, I know that...

As for Doing-good…I have tried it fairly, and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.