Do Good And Avoid Evil Quotes

#1. Everybody has an instinctive desire to do good things and avoid evil. But that desire is sterile as long as we have no experience of what it means to be good ...

Thomas Merton

#2. Your Evil today won't brighten your tomorrow,do good today and avoid your sorrow ...

Ras Obenn

#3. For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation.

Kim Campbell

#4. It is the nature of the brute to remain where he is (not to progress); it is the nature of man to seek good and avoid evil; it is the nature of God to seek neither, but just to be eternally blissful. Let us be God!

Swami Vivekananda

#5. Children, Fear God; that is to say, have an holy awe upon your minds to avoid that which is evil, and a strict care to embrace and do that which is good.

William Penn

#6. Those whose spiritual awareness has been awakened never make a false move. They don't have to avoid evil. They are so replete with love that whatever they do is a good action. They are fully conscious that they are not the doer of their actions, but only servants of God.

Ramakrishna

#7. O God! I ask You for the means to do good, to avoid evil and to love the poor.

Nazr Mohammed

#8. Dreams have a long history of delivering messages. At the very least they have been considered meaningful and mysterious.

Deepak Chopra

#9. To harbor no envy, no anger, no resentment against an offender is still not to have charity for him. It is possible, without any charity, to avoid rendering evil for evil. But to render, spontaneously, good for evil - such belongs to a perfect spiritual love.

Maximus The Confessor

#10. It is a sin to persue pleasure as a good and to avoid pain as a evil.

Marcus Aurelius

#11. No matter what circumstances we might face in life, it is possible for us to overcome in the midst of them by taking hold of God's thoughts.

Christine Caine

#12. Some people have the disease of criticising all the time. They forget the good about others and only mention their faults. They are like flies that avoid the good and pure places and land on the bad and wounds. This is because of the evil within the self and the spoiled nature

Ibn Taymiyyah

#13. The majority of mankind would seem to be beguiled into error by pleasure, which, not being really a good, yet seems to be so. So that they indiscriminately choose as good whatsoever gives them pleasure, while they avoid all pain alike as evil.

Aristotle.

#14. There comes a time in every young girl's life when she is instructed by a complete stranger to scale a tall ladder for dinner atop a roof, and in almost every case the best thing to do is refuse and run home to call the asylum from which the stranger escaped.

Gina Damico

#15. The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#16. [But] I fear that in the individual lives of all but a few, the balance is in debit - we do so little that is positive good, even if we negatively avoid what is actively evil.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#17. In our own days we have seen no princes accomplish great results save those who have been accounted miserly.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#18. If history records good things about good people, the thoughtful hearer is encouraged to imitate what is good; or if it records the evil of wicked people, the godly listener or reader is encouraged to avoid all that is sinful and bad, and to do what he knows to be good and pleasing to God.

Venerable Bede