Top 100 Quotes About Depravity
#1. The men who are dropped in a jungle or a desert and expected video games and got mundanity and depravity and friends dying like animals.
Dave Eggers
#2. The shape of evil is much more superficiality and blindness than the usual list of hot sins. God hides, and is found, precisely in the depths of everything.
Richard Rohr
#3. Violent crimes had increased from 120 per 100,000 in 1962 180 per 100,000 by 1964.
Rick Perlstein
#4. A fair vision had welcomed him in this land of disease.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#6. A child is the quickest to trust because they have no concept of the depravity of our species.
Alessandra Torre
#7. To Tom, the march of technology was equivalent to the march of civilization.
Stephen L. Carter
#8. Though the outside of human life changes much, the inside changes little.
Edith Hamilton
#9. My guess was that when you descended to a certain depth of depravity, the Fogs could smell you as a hound, catching a murderer's spoor, could track the criminal through forest, field, and moor.
Dean Koontz
#10. The hand entrusted with power becomes, either from human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people
Wendell Phillips
#12. THE VEIL OF CIVILISATION was thin indeed, so easily torn away to reveal depravity waiting beneath, waiting, as such things always did, for the first hint of turbulence.
Steven Erikson
#13. Total depravity means the entire absence of holiness, not the highest intensity of sin. A totally depraved man is not as bad as he can be, but he has no holiness, that is, no supreme love of God
William Greenough Thayer Shedd
#14. The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
Umberto Eco
#15. A happy people I call them still, whose peace and genuine morals have not been contaminated with European vices; and whose errorsare only the errors of ignorance, and not the rooted depravity of a pretended civilization, and a spurious and mock Christianity.
John Gabriel Stedman
#16. If I had a single wish, I would wish sixty seconds of total depravity upon myself. For one of the greatest gifts of all is to have 'nothing' so that I can finally learn how to appreciate 'everything'.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#17. No one can become and remain a theologian unless he is compelled again and again to be astonished at himself.
Karl Barth
#18. We've defined decency down now that we look at the entertainment value of it, whether the acting is good, the writing is good, the story is good, no matter the depravity, we'll watch it.
Rush Limbaugh
#19. All our good is more apparently from God, because we are first naked and wholly without any good, and afterwards enrich with all good.
Jonathan Edwards
#20. To what level of depravity has a society descended when it condemns a man simply because he is strong and great?
Ayn Rand
#21. Yet again, isn't there something terrible in randomness - the idea that at the very bottom of its calculations, real depravity has no master plan of any kind, it's just a dreamy whim that slides out of people when they are trapped or bored or too lazy to analyze their own mania.
Aeschylus
#22. And the matron sighed over the destiny of ladies in good society, whose moral judgement led them to love unabashedly and whose depravity led them to pay for it.
Michelle Franklin
#23. We instantly believe everything we think. Isn't that insane? It's good for us to explore the depravity of our minds, so we know we are just as crazy as everyone else!
Krishna Das
#24. It is when my umbrella turns inside out that I am convinced of the total depravity of inanimate things.
L.M. Montgomery
#25. Despite noble depravity, there was something intoxicating about high society.
Brandon Sanderson
#26. Clearly the sight of a well-muscled forearm incited a woman to utter depravity. How else to explain the invention of cuffs?
Tessa Dare
#27. Knowing God without knowing our wretchedness leads to pride. Knowing our wretchedness without knowing God leads to despair. Knowing Jesus Christ is the middle course, because in him we find both God and our wretchedness.
Blaise Pascal
#28. We can never grasp the extent of our depravity until we recognize the excellencies of our created dignity.
Matt Chandler
#29. Why, since folly or perversity is expected of individuals, should we expect anything else from government?
Barbara W. Tuchman
#30. Salvation now consists of a deep wrestling in our souls with the sinfulness of our hearts, the depth of our depravity, and the desperation of our need for his grace.
David Platt
#31. The unholy alliance of religion and politics collaborated in finding Jesus guilty.
Eugene H. Peterson
#32. The French were more tolerant of brothels than any other nation in Europe, though there was some dispute about whether this reflected enlightenment or depravity.
Max Hastings
#33. Hysterical optimism will prevail until the world again admits the existence of tragedy, and it cannot admit the existence of tragedy until it again distinguishes between good and evil ... Hysterical optimism as a sin against knowledge.
Richard M. Weaver
#34. ... sorrow was always the bedfellow of depravity.
Peter Ackroyd
#36. All our good is apparently from God, because we are first naked and holy without any good, and afterwards enriched with all good.
Jonathan Edwards
#37. The church is a whore, but she is still my mother. Augustine
Matt Chandler
#38. Knowledge, learning, talents are not necessarily connected with sound moral and political principles ... And eminent abilities, accompanied with depravity of heart, render the possessor tenfold more dangerous in a community.
Noah Webster
#39. Nobody ever became depraved all at once.
[Lat., Nemo repente fuit turpissimus.]
Juvenal
#40. As a matter of fact, the person who loves everybody and feels at home everywhere is the true hater of mankind. He expects nothing of men, so no form of depravity can outrage him.
Ayn Rand
#41. Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.
Samuel Johnson
#42. Every moment thou waitest does but increase thy misery; thine attempts to plume thyself and make thyself fit for Jesus are all vanity.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#43. The Russian people were just like us. They were victims of their own government. Ronald Reagan
Chris Matthews
#44. It's an act of our will to choose to see people simply as wildly loved by God, to assume their beauty before guessing their depravity.
Mary E. DeMuth
#45. The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.
Malcolm Muggeridge
#46. Although your mind works, your heart is
darkened with depravity; and without a pure heart there can be no complete and
true consciousness
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#47. Was this some new level of depravity? Had he developed a spinster fetish?
Lisa Kleypas
#48. We may have loved the god that we made up in our minds, but the God of the Bible, we hate.
David Platt
#49. I know now, from experience, that the path to joy winds through this dark valley. I think every well-adjusted human being has dealt squarely with his or her own depravity.
Donald Miller
#50. There is not much to say about Burrough's writing. It consists of semiliterate ravings by a very sick mind, a kaleidoscope or surrealistic depictions of drug-taking, violent, often misogynistic fantasy, and sexual depravity.
Roger Kimball
#51. We know that laws ought to be obeyed only if they come out of people's sense of justice, not because the state needs them to preserve its power. Laws devised for the depravity of power are as worthless as the paper they are printed on.
Aleksandar Hemon
#52. She knows what's coming, and just that look of surrender in her eyes makes me horny as fuck. Not yet, Marcus. Not yet. Your turn will come soon. I don't know why this depravity turns me on so much. I should be revolted by my own desires, but I'm not. The
Clarissa Wild
#53. Original sin, therefore, appears to be a hereditary, depravity and corruption of our nature, diffused through all the parts of the soul, rendering us obnoxious to the divine wrath and producing in us those works which the scripture calls 'works of.
John Calvin
#54. The dream of all men is to meet little sluts who are innocent but ready for all forms of depravity - which is what, more or less, all teenage girls are.
Michel Houellebecq
#56. It is of interest to note that most secular humanists continue to belabor the horrors of the Inquisition in order to establish the moral depravity of Christianity.
Guenter Lewy
#57. The last Bible I looked at contained over 2000 pages, and you humans managed to get yourself kicked out Paradise by page 5. That has to be some kind of record.
Dennis Garvin
#58. Christians do not avail ourselves of Plato's safety-hatch and say that the real world is not a thing of space, time, and matter, but another world into which we can escape. We say that the present world is the real one, and that it's in bad shape, but expecting to be repaired.
N. T. Wright
#59. We have before us the fiendishness of business competition and the world war, passion and wrongdoing, antagonism between classes and moral depravity within them, economic tyranny above and the slave spirit below.
Karl Barth
#60. Till thou hast learned to suffer from a saint a well as from the wicked, and to be abused by the godly as well as the ungodly, never look to live a contented or comfortable life, nor ever think thou has truly learned the art of suffering (383).
Richard Baxter
#61. We have all of us to some extent become inured to a culture where viciousness and depravity are simply taken for granted, like some hideous wallpaper we have lived with for years.
Roger Kimball
#62. A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes - and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#63. we lived depravity
and called it truth, silencing
our dreaming, and
our love, discarding
things holy.
John Daniel Thieme
#65. The knowledge of my depravity is the only thing that makes me special ... that I have always always always known, and have never for a moment been able to forget, that there is something terribly wrong with me.
Chris Adrian
#66. Lieutenant al-Kaseasbeh's dedication, courage and service to his country and family represent universal human values that stand in opposition to the cowardice and depravity of ISIL, which has been so broadly rejected around the globe.
Barack Obama
#67. I could never understand the purpose of my kind. They are cruel, heartless beings. And the way they obtain legs is even crueler still. But what can be said about a being who is heartless even though they possess one?
Amy Astorga
#68. The Bedlam that greeted James Tilly Matthews, then, was not so much a baroque spectacle of depravity as an exhausted and run-down public institution, its building falling apart and its professional image tarnished.
Mike Jay
#69. All these institutions [prisons] seemed purposely invented for the production of depravity and vice, condensed to such a degree that no other conditions could produce it, and for the spreading of this condensed depravity and vice broadcast among the whole population.
Leo Tolstoy
#70. Tis a more glorious effect of power to make that holy that was so depraved and under the domination of sin than to confer holiness on that which before had nothing of the contrary.
Jonathan Edwards
#71. It is well for us when prayers about our sorrows are linked with pleas concerning our sins - when, being under God's hand, we are not wholly taken up with our pain, but remember our offences against God.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#72. The fanciful theory that a person's life was etched on their physical form - be it despair, happiness, or in this case sheer depravity - was entirely disproved by Blaine. That, or she already had a huge portrait or herself slowly decaying in the attic.
Tabitha McGowan
#73. As his body became more and more defenseless, so his means of offense became steadily more frightful.
Arthur C. Clarke
#74. To discover depravity in those whom we have loved, is one of the most exquisite tortures to a virtuous mind, and the conviction is often rejected before it is finally admitted.
Ann Radcliffe
#75. In the acceptance of depravity the sense of the past is most truly captured. What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance? Corruption is the Age of Time.
Djuna Barnes
#76. You need to get down among the people who are the dirtiest and dustiest, and the depravity, and you need to see Christ's light shining there.
Karen Kingsbury
#77. I couldn't begin to tell you what terrible trigger for such insanity lies deep in my sub-conscious. Though no doubt some would say that, indeed, it may be some demon of conscience. A deeply buried guilt for some unforgivable depravity. Then again, perhaps not.
Angel Rosa
#78. Backward we are naturally to all good things, and it is a lesson of grace to learn to go forward in the ways of God.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#79. When everyone is moving towards depravity, no one seems to be moving, but if someone stops he shows up the others who are rushing on, by acting as a fixed point.
Blaise Pascal
#80. In a place like this, there would be petty despots. Factions. This was a sunless world where madness and depravity reigned.
Ann Aguirre
#81. You are plainly awash with debauchery.I'm merely an innocent casualty of your depravity.
Kendra Leigh
#82. Our insight into the need of redemption will largely depend upon our knowledge of the terrible nature of the power that has entered our being.
Andrew Murray
#83. A few years ago we colonised this place with some of our finest felons, thieves, muggers, alcoholics and prostitutes, a strain of depravity which I believe has contributed greatly to this country's amazing vigour and enterprise.
Ian Wooldridge
#84. "Secret migration" across borders is a form of human degradation and evidence of the depravity of the human conscience.
Hassan Blasim
#85. Grace never ignores the awful truth of our depravity; in fact it emphasizes it. The worse we realize we are the greater we realize God's grace.
Randy Alcorn
#86. The author squares man's depravity with still being made in the image of God with this word picture. A vase that has held beautiful roses though now broken, will nevertheless hold something of the fragrance it once contained.
A.W. Tozer
#87. Mankind's tragedy is that he can draw up blueprints for a better life but he cannot live up to them.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#88. Because of total depravity, you and I were desperate for God's grace before we were saved. Because of total depravity, you and I remain desperate for God's grace even after we're saved.
Tullian Tchividjian
#89. [N]obody can produce new evidence of your depravity that will make God change his mind. For God justified you with (so to speak) his eyes open. He knew the worst about you at the time when he accepted you for Jesus' sake; and the verdict which he passed then was, and is, final.
J.I. Packer
#90. An uncommon prudence is habtual with the subtler depravity, for it has everything to hide.
Herman Melville
#91. The gospel proceeds on the basis of universal depravity; the gospel assimilates all varieties of human nature into one common experience of guilt and need and helplessness; and this is just what you do not like about it.
William Morley Punshon
#92. It is only against the pitch blackness of the night that we see the glory of the stars. And it is only against the pitch blackness of man's radical depravity that we can begin to see the glories of the gospel.
Paul David Washer
#93. True gospel preaching always changes the heart. It either awakens it or hardens it.
Chan Kilgore
#94. The blessed Religion revealed in the word of God will remain an eternal and awful monument to prove that the best Institution may be abused by human depravity; and that they may even, in some instances be made subservient to the vilest purposes.
George Washington
#95. To me there's only one form of human depravity-the man without a purpose.
Ayn Rand
#97. If these children can survive the depravity inflicted on them by others, then I can certainly endure hearing about it!
Anonymous
#98. The vampire could woo any woman with his charisma and his charm, but he only wishes to romance her.. for eternity.
Mr. Depravity
#99. Kindness and pain, joy and suffering are twins in this fallen world.
Philip Zaleski
#100. When a girl trudged through the rain at midnight to knock at the Devil's door, the Devil should at least have the depravity - if not the decency - to answer.
Tessa Dare
