Top 100 God Evil Quotes
#1. God, in the orthodox view, causes famine, plague, and flood. Was God evil? Evil is a convenient fiction.
Peter Straub
#2. When we prepare not our hearts for the things of God, evil things take over.
Sunday Adelaja
#3. God seldom suspends the laws of nature, just as God does not remove free will to keep evil people from doing evil things.
Adam Hamilton
#4. If God were good, why would he create Rush Limbaugh?
Sherman Alexie
#5. Around us there is the presence of evil. The devil is at work. But in a loud voice I say: GOD IS STRONGER.
Pope Francis
#6. Evil is real but its opposite, Goodness, is also real. And, thank God, it too is contagious.
Patricia Luce Chapman
#7. The law is an expression of God 's holy will and as such must be honored and loved," said the preacher piously. "Rubbish," said the Master. "The law is a necessary evil and as such must be cut down to the barest minimum. Show me a lover of the law and I will show you a muttonheaded tyrant .
Anthony De Mello
#8. Meg," he whispered. "It wouldn't be real love if there weren't the possibility for another response to him. If we couldn't choose not to love him, then our love would be empty. That's why there's evil in this world, because there's free choice in this world. He allows the one to prove the other.
Laura Anderson Kurk
#9. I tell people all the time, 'Don't give up.' We get almost to our blessing, whether you believe spiritually in God or in a good force and an evil force. We get almost to our blessing, and we quit. Don't stop.
Sam Childers
#10. If a nation has not God that nation must fall, but if a nation has God then all the powers of evil, and all the armies, cannot shake its foundations; no, not even if the whole world is arrayed against it.
Taylor Caldwell
#11. The Ventoux is a god of Evil, to which sacrifices must be made. It never forgives weakness and extracts an unfair tribute of suffering.
Roland Barthes
#12. Be virtuous in thought and in deed. God has planted in you, for a purpose, a divine urge which may be easily subverted to evil and destructive ends.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#13. To see evil and call it good, mocks God. Worse, it makes goodness meaningless. A word without meaning is an abomination, for when the word passes beyond understanding the very thing the word stands for passes out of the world and cannot be recalled.
Stephen R. Lawhead
#14. When we struggle, as so many do, in grinding poverty, or when our enemies prevail against us, or when sickness is not healed, the enemy of our souls can send his evil message that there is no God or that if He exists He does not care about us.
Henry B. Eyring
#15. I am an Agnostic because I am not afraid to think. I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.
Clarence Darrow
#16. Christianity is the only religion whose God bears the scars of evil.
Os Guinness
#17. Law for the Christian is thus absolute, final, and an aspect of God's creation and a manifestation of His nature. In terms of this, the Christian can hold that right is right, and wrong is wrong, that good and evil are unchanging moral categories rather then relative terms.
Rousas John Rushdoony
#18. Satan's greatest power was not that he could inflict evil. His greatest power was to make the sons of God forget who they were.
Deepak Chopra
#19. Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side,
Kurt Vonnegut
#20. God is in the manger, wealth in poverty, light in darkness, succor in abandonment. No evil can befall us; whatever men may do to us, they cannot but serve the God who is secretly revealed as love and rules the world and our lives.2
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#21. Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.
Solomon
#22. The sovereignty of God is the one impregnable rock to which the suffering human heart must cling. The circumstances surrounding our lives are no accident: they may be the work of evil, but that evil is held firmly within the mighty hand of our sovereign God. - Margaret Clarkson
Randy Alcorn
#23. This society in which we live is radically changing. What previous generations saw as evil is now embraced as being good. It is a dangerous and slippery slope upon which we stand when we reject what Solomon called the beginning of wisdom - the fear of God.
Ray Comfort
#24. The wicked make all God's good works serve evil purposes but the person of good will, to the contrary, makes the evil doings of the wicked serve good purposes.
Augustine Of Hippo
#25. No misery to be saved from . . . So evil is necessary, in order to the highest happiness of the creature, and the completeness of that communication of God, for which he made the world; because the creature's
Austin Fischer
#26. God Almighty would in no way permit evil in His works were He not so omnipotent and good that even out of evil He could work good.
Saint Augustine
#27. Evil into the mind of god or man may come and go, so unapproved, and leave no spot or blame behind.
John Milton
#28. God's favor in its fullness is that which allows strength to overcome with weakness, love to overcome hatred, God's goodness to defeat Satan's evil nature.
Sunday Adelaja
#29. I understand fine," Kevin said bitterly. "I just think it's fucked. God is either powerless, or stupid or he doesn't give a shit. Or all three. He's evil, dumb and weak. I think I'll start my own Exegesis.
Philip K. Dick
#30. The kosmos works by harmony of tensions, like lyre and bow. Good and evil are one. On the one hand God sees all as well, fair, and good; on the other hand a human being sees injustice here, justice there. Justice in our minds is strife. We cannot help but see war makes us as we are.
Heraclitus
#31. Anna ... the night of the summit, when you were saved, it was the only time in my life I've thenked God for anything
Those words. They would melt me over and over for all time
Wendy Higgins
#32. Dear God, if you were alive, you know we'd kill you.
Marilyn Manson
#33. A bad book about the love of God remains a bad book.
Thomas Merton
#34. What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#35. Man allowed by God to do good and evil.
That's why some of angels feel so jealous.
Toba Beta
#36. Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but the Kingdom of God will conquer all these horrors. No evil can resist grace forever.
Brennan Manning
#37. So great and boundless is God's wisdom that he knows right well how to use evil instruments to do good.
John Calvin
#38. Only the people who are born of God can become victors and overcomers in this evil world
Sunday Adelaja
#39. When the "evil day" comes, we do not have to be dependent upon the circumstances around us, but rather on the resources of God!
Billy Graham
#40. The devil has not vanished simply because people refuse to believe he exists, no more than God has ...
E.A. Bucchianeri
#41. Kind and lovely thought originate from God while evil and revengeful thoughts are initiated by the devil.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#42. God is all powerful.
God is good.
Evil exists.
You can reconcile any two of those statements, but not all three.
Greg Iles
#43. The reason we see hypocrisy and fraud and unreality in others is because they are all in our own hearts. The great characteristic of a saint is humility-Yes, all those things and other evils would have been manifested in me but for the grace of God, therefore I have no right to judge.
Oswald Chambers
#44. The world has been wrong about you. They've hated your glory - just as the Evil One hates the glory of God. But we need your gift. Come forth.
John Eldredge
#45. Our judgements of good and evil ... presuppose God as the standard. If there's no God, there's neither good nor evil. There's just nature doing what it does
Peter Kreeft
#46. Where God is like the sun, the Devil is like a raindrop. There is no 'God vs. Satan' because they aren't even that close in power and authority. The former is very patient; the latter is at mercy.
Criss Jami
#47. To keep my life free of evil I must of necessity keep my life full of God, for keeping my life full of anything else will give evil everything else.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#48. I lost the most precious thing a man can have: my faith in my fellow man. I laughed and I wept at God's irony, at the absurd way he had chosen to demonstrate to me that I was an instrument of Good and Evil.
Paulo Coelho
#49. George W. Bush is using language that's a mirror image of the language of Osama bin Laden when he says, "We have God on our side. This is the struggle of good against evil."
Sam Hamill
#50. Woe to those who call evil good and good evil ... who put darkness for light and light for darkness ... who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight. Issiah 5:20,21
Nikki Rosen
#51. We read the Scriptures in vain if we fail to discover that the actions of men, evil men as well as good, are governed by the Lord God.
Arthur W. Pink
#52. So little knows
Any but God alone to value right
The good before him but perverts best things
To worst abuse or to their meanest use.
John Milton
#53. Two great prayers;
Yahweh, grant me grace for my daily activities.
Yahweh, protect me from all evil, so that my life will be free of pain in Jesus name. Amen!
Lailah Gifty Akita
#54. I no nothing of god or the devil, and after 400 years ... This is the only real evil left ...
Anne Rice
#55. There are two infinities in this world: God up above, and down below, human baseness.
Jules De Goncourt
#57. And on the eighth day God created Palm Beach...
Season Of The Devil: Love & Evil In Palm Beach
Pamela Southwood
#58. I think God gives medication that heals some illnesses. But I think when you deny the reality of evil, you want to use medicine to solve every problem, and it doesn't solve every problem.
Robert Jeffress
#59. In fact, suggests Lewis, the entrance to the netherworld, where every evil will find its comeuppance, is locked from the inside, the damned souls having slammed shut every possible door that may lead the repentant sinner to God.
William Shakespeare
#60. Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.
Richard P. Feynman
#61. Fiction has subversive potential. People let it into their minds, like the Trojan Horse. They don't know what's inside. You hook them with the story, and God can work below the level of their consciousness. Fiction can be propaganda for evil or convey a theme that impacts people for good.
Randy Alcorn
#62. She talked about God giving man free will. Because of that, there is evil in the world. If God pulled everyone's strings all the time, we'd be puppets.
Janice Cantore
#63. The prayers of God's saints strengthen the unborn generation against the desolating waves of sin and evil.
Edward McKendree Bounds
#64. What the Gospels offer is not a philosophical explanation of evil - what it is or why it's there - but the story of an event in which the living God deals with it
N. T. Wright
#65. Money is the most powerful and popular god because everybody is praying for money.
Debasish Mridha
#66. Don't be afraid of anything. We've seen so much suffering and evil in the 20th century and we got through it. We can go on. God is with us. God will help us. Trust Him.
Michael Novak
#67. Even if we may not always understand why God allows certain things to happen to us, we can know He is able to bring good out of evil, and triumph out of suffering.
Billy Graham
#68. It has been said that people never do evil with more enthusiasm than when they do it in the name of God.
Tony Campolo
#69. maybe we need great disappointment to appreciate the good, and to better appreciate the meaning of God in our lives. I've come to realize that part of faith is opening yourself up to free will and knowing God will bring beauty, even in the midst of evil.
Taya Kyle
#70. Nature knows no Moral Order. Nature doesn't give a fig for social conventions or ethical questions. And God cannot respond to or repair evil, because He is not there to witness it.
Rikki Ducornet
#71. Although God loves us unconditionally, He does get angry at sin, wickedness and evil. But He is not an angry God. God hates sin, but He loves sinners! He will never approve of sin in your life, but He always loves you and wants to work with you to make progress in living a holy life in Christ.
Joyce Meyer
#73. Lions and Lambs, love and force, light and fire, good and evil: all things climb the same mountain, the mountain of God.
Nikos Kazantzakis
#74. The allegory of Adam and Eve eating of the tree of evil, and entailing upon their posterity the wrath of God and the loss of everlasting life, admits of no other explanation than the disease and crime that have flowed from unnatural diet.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#75. What do we find God 'doing about' this business of sin and evil? ... God did not abolish the fact of evil; He transformed it. He did not stop the Crucifixion; He rose from the dead.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#76. He that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.
John R. Rice
#77. O God, I can no longer fight my battles alone. I need Your help, Your love. Forgive me for all my mistakes. Cleanse my heart of all evil. Show me the way to peace and quiet and health, and fill me with love even for my enemies
Unknown
#78. Since God has appointed one remedy for all the evils in the world and that is a contented spirit.
Jeremy Taylor
#79. As a scientist, I can not help feeling that all religions are on a tottering foundation. None is perfect or inspired.
The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me. I don't want to have anything to do with such a God.
Luther Burbank
#80. The presence and love of the Word had called them into being; inevitably, therefore when they lost the knowledge of God, they lost existence with it; for it is God alone Who exists, evil is non-being, the negation and antithesis of good.
Athanasius Of Alexandria
#81. Gnag bends things for breaking, and the Maker makes a flourish! Evil digs a pit, and the Maker makes a well! That is his way.
Andrew Peterson
#82. Anytime there's a God, there has to be a devil. And anytime there's good, there has to be evil. And the evil sometimes is the best!
Tasha Smith
#83. My answer would be definite yes! Destructive atheism, in my view and the view of the Church, is part of a much larger picture - cosmic warfare, that is, between God and Evil, between God and Satan.
Gerard Verschuuren
#84. The cruelest, narrowest, most evil people will always rise to power because they'll always be the ones most willing to wrap themselves in the crescent flag and murder people in God's name.
Orson Scott Card
#85. Every form, not being the whole, must, of necessity, be imperfect; less than the whole, it cannot be identical with the whole, and being less than the whole and, therefore, imperfect by itself, it shows imperfection as evil, and only the totality of a universe can mirror the image of God.
Annie Besant
#86. Evil is maybe lying to God.
Or better, lying to love.
Anne Sexton
#87. God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds.
Garrett Fort
#88. Jesus on the Cross feels the whole weight of the evil, and with the force of God's love he conquers it, he defeats it with his resurrection.
Pope Francis
#89. The God I find in Christ is a God who overcomes evil with good, hate by love, and the world by a cross.
E. Stanley Jones
#90. Man has 2 common problems with God: the one is that there is evil in the world; the other is that free will is limited. The one, he is charging that the world is too evil; the other is that it is not evil enough.
Criss Jami
#91. God still has a way of wringing good out of evil. History has proven time and time again that unmerited suffering is redemptive.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#92. Because it's our duty to God to protect the rest of humanity from evil creatures of the night.
Richelle Mead
#93. In our evil we rebel against God. We take the law of God, written in his Word and on our hearts, and we disobey it.
David Platt
#94. You do evil to the man and to God through your miracle prayers all the time.
Sunday Adelaja
#95. Government is to minister as an instrument in the hand of God to promote justice and to punish evil.
R.C. Sproul
#96. We constantly fight an unseen enemy. God has assured us the victory, but He has told us to take an aggressive stand against the evil one, covering ourselves in His armor. We're going to win, but victory is going to take blood, sweat, and tears - His blood, our sweat, and tears from us both.
Beth Moore
#97. The beginning of all temptations to evil is instability of temper and want of trust in God;
Thomas A Kempis
#98. There is no evil, there's no bad; there's no good. These are human ideas. There's no creator, there's no creation; there's no God, there's no nirvana, there's no perfection. These are ideas.
Frederick Lenz
#99. With life and all I've been through, I do have a belief in goodness, a good spirit. I think what people have done with religion is personified good and evil, so good's become God with 'o' out, and evil's become Devil with a 'd' added. That's my theory of religion.
Paul McCartney
#100. God knows I detest slavery but it is an existing evil, and we must endure it and give it such protection as is guaranteed by the Constitution.
Millard Fillmore
