Top 71 Quotes On Evil Hearts
#1. We rant and rave against God for the evil we have to endure but hardly blink at the evil in our own hearts.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#2. When culture changes around us, God's standard of living does not. Even when we're engulfed by evil, the eyes of the Lord range to and fro throughout all the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to Him.
David Jeremiah
#3. When we prepare not our hearts for the things of God, evil things take over.
Sunday Adelaja
#4. But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth. Such 'wisdom' does not come down from heaven but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice" (James 3:14
Craig Groeschel
#5. The darkness does not flow from my being to them, but out of their hearts and into my skin. I don't inspire your evil. I never did. You offer it to me, from the gravest crime to the smallest indifference.
Phil Hester
#6. When the Holy Spirit does his work of regeneration in the hearts of men he does not come on them with great powerful feelings and emotions which cannot be resisted. He does not possess men as evil spirits take possession of their victims.
John Owen
#7. We all of us carry the seed of evil in our hearts and souls," she told him. "Even the purest, even the most holy. It is part of the human condition, born into us. We cannot root it out. All we can do - at best - is prevent it from germinating.
David Gemmell
#8. There were a billion lights out there on the horizon and I knew that all of them put together weren't enough to light the darkness in the hearts of some men.
Michael Connelly
#9. ... mischief, ... arises not from our living in the world, but from the world living in us; occupying our hearts, and monopolizing our affections.
Karen Swallow Prior
#10. War is the greatest evil Satan has invented to corrupt our hearts and souls. We should honor our soldiers, but we should never honor war.
Dean Hughes
#11. Until men desire to control their own passions, evil has rooted itself in their hearts and darkness will rise again.
Jaime Buckley
#12. There is no evil in sorcery, only in the hearts of men
Merlin
#13. In the eyes of Buddha, there are no evil people, only people who don't yet have light in their hearts.
Lijia Zhang
#14. There is very little truth in the old refrain that one cannot legislate equality. Laws not only provide concrete benefits, they can even change the hearts of men - some men, anyhow - for good or evil.
Gilbert King
#15. 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
#16. Friendship throws out deep roots in honest hearts, D'Artagnan. Believe me, it is only the evil-minded who deny friendship; they cannot understand it.
Alexandre Dumas
#17. Every fresh act of sin lessens fear and remorse, hardens our hearts, blunts the edge of our conscience, and increases our evil inclination.
J.C. Ryle
#18. When our conscience bothers us, whether we admit it or not, we often try to justify it by correcting others, or by finding fault with them. The readiness to believe evil about others is in large part ammunition for a thousand scandals in our own hearts.
Fulton J. Sheen
#19. In the hearts of men lies both good and evil. The two coexist. Some men become good, and others become evil. It is the way of this world.
-Kikyo
Rumiko Takahashi
#20. It would cause nothing but madness, Thomas thought. Men would fight for it, lie for it, cheat for it, betray for it and die for it. The Church would make money from it. It would cause nothing but evil, he thought, for it stirred horror from men's hearts,
Bernard Cornwell
#21. Our hearts are not stones. A stone may disintegrate in time and lose its outward form. But hearts never disintegrate. They have no outward form, and whether good or evil, we can always communicate them to one another.
Haruki Murakami
#22. ..all forms of needlework of the fancy order are inventions of the evil one for keeping the foolish from applying their hearts to wisdom.
Elizabeth Von Arnim
#23. It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.
Carl Jung
#24. Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another's.
Desiderius Erasmus
#25. It is in our hearts that evil lies, and it is from our hearts that it must be plucked out.
Bertrand Russell
#26. When a man makes utensils out of a metal which has been thoroughly cleansed of dross, the utensils will be excellent. You monks, who wish to follow the Way, make your own hearts clean from the dirt of evil passion, and your conduct will be unimpeachable.
Gautama Buddha
#27. Those secrets residing in their hearts and minds held magnificent Energy. Humans were too inept to see it as anything but evil.
Auden Johnson
#28. Being delivered from bodily sins is not enough; we must also cleanse the inner energy which dwells in our soul. For out of our hearts 'proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness' (Mk. 7:21) and so on ? these are what motivate people.
Gregory Palamas
#29. The problem of evil, that is to say the reconciling of our failures, even the purely physical ones, with creative goodness and creative power, will always remain one of the most disturbing mysteries of the universe for both our hearts and our minds.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#30. Three sparks
pride, envy, and avarice
have been kindled in all hearts.
Dante Alighieri
#31. There is evil! It's actual, like cement.
I can't believe it. I can't stand it.
Evil is not a view ... it's an ingredient in us. In the world. Poured over us, filtering into our bodies, minds, hearts, into the pavement itself.
Philip K. Dick
#32. We would do well to remember that envy is clearly the flint that ignites evil in our hearts. It apparently signals "I'm available" to demons searching for a cheap date. Envy is as volatile as nitroglycerin, and we cannot carry it inside us without evil exploding.
Craig Groeschel
#33. The heart of the issue is an issue of the heart. And that's why I'm a pastor, not a politician. Because I think only - only God can change hearts. And only God can take the evil out. I don't think you can legislate the evil out of people.
Rick Warren
#34. Love overlooks a person's faults. That's not always easy, but love believes the best in every person. Anybody can return evil for evil, but God wants His people to help heal wounded hearts.
Joel Osteen
#35. The Orb is not of itself evil. Evil is a thing that lies only in the hearts and minds of men
and of Gods, also.
Aldur
David Eddings
#36. Depending upon one another's hearts, ye had still hoped that virtue were not all a dream. Now are ye undeceived. Evil is the nature of mankind.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#37. In order not to be subjected to the continual harassments of the evil spirit, we must constantly have in our hearts this prayer to Jesus Christ: "Jesus, Son of God, have mercy upon me!
John Of Kronstadt
#38. If your motives aren't clean, money itself becomes evil. But When we don't have money enough evil, the world tells us we're losers. So what determines our place in society is not how much kindness is in our hearts but how much evil is in our wallet.
Todd McFarlane
#39. The Devil's minions worked his treacherous plot through the hearts of men, possessing them, ruling them. These hounds of hell ran wild these days through their human hosts, working greater and greater abominations.
Eric J. Martindale
#40. As long as Satan is loose in the world and our hearts are dominated by his evil passions, it will never be easy or popular to be a follower of Christ.
Billy Graham
#41. The prosperity achieved through slavery had a way of blinding men's hearts to the evil of their own hands.
Ian Tregillis
#42. Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another and all against evil only.
Thomas Carlyle
#43. Never underestimate the power of good but never ignore evil lurking in the hearts of men.
Rose of Life
Sonia Rumzi
#44. And, as with all retold tales that are in people's hearts, there are only good and bad things and black and white things and good and evil things and no in between anywhere.
John Steinbeck
#45. Neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible except to God alone.
John Milton
#46. Friends with spiteful hearts and thousand eyes of evil, mock not my slumbering glory. I just might be the next in line to gain access to the secret fount of good riches.
Darmie Orem
#47. How easy it is for men with evil in their hearts to hear only what they want
Paul W. Feenstra
#48. Governments will rise, and governments will fall, and man will do evil to man, and all we can do is turn our hearts to good.
Margaret Peterson Haddix
#49. You see we do, yet see you but our hands
And this the bleeding business they have done:
Our hearts you see not; they are pitiful
William Shakespeare
#51. If, as some say, evil lies in the hearts and not the institutions of men, then there's hardly a distinction worth making between, say, Hitler's Germany and Rebecca's Sunnybrook Farm.
Edward Abbey
#52. Lord keep us all from sin. Teach us how to walk circumspectly; enable us to guard our minds against error of doctrine, our hearts against wrong feelings, and our lives against evil actions.
Charles Spurgeon
#53. Not all people are 'people', some are more and some are less. But only those who listen intently with their hearts will recognise them for what they are.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
#54. Our hearts are with you and we are ready to provide any assistance at any time ... This is a war between good and evil and between humanity and the bloodthirsty.
Ariel Sharon
#55. Bread sets free; but does not necessarily set free for good ends
that dear illusion of so many generous hearts. It sets a man free to choose: it often sets free for the bad, but man has a right to that choice and to that evil, without which he is no longer a man.
Francoise Mallet-Joris
#56. All those evil doctrines about God that work misery and madness have their origin in the brains of the wise and prudent, not in the hearts of children.
George MacDonald
#57. They went into the desert not to study speculative truth, but to wrestle with practical evil; not to perfect their analytical intelligence, but to purify their hearts.
Thomas Merton
#58. O how can wicked men seem so steady and untouched with such black hearts, while poor innocents stand like malefactors before them!
Samuel Richardson
#59. What evil lies in the hearts of some? I cannot fathom it.
Sasha Summers
#60. No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.
Orson Scott Card
#61. It's not the gods But our own hearts We need to fear. The evil starts Against all odds Not there but here.
Vikram Seth
#62. You cannot pray for someone and hate them at the same time. Even if you are asking God to restrain their evil actions,
you should also be praying that He will change their hearts. Only eternity will reveal the impact of our prayers for others.
Billy Graham
#63. I have known some horses and a good many more pigs who I believe harbored evil intent in their hearts. I will go further and say all cats are wicked, though often useful. Who has not seen Satan in their sly faces?
Charles Portis
#64. There is evil prowling in the world - it shows up in our movies, video games and online fascinations, and finds its way into vulnerable hearts and minds.
Rick Perry
#65. Believe me, you cannot stand still in your souls. Habits of good or evil are daily strengthening in your hearts. Every day you are either getting nearer to God, or further off.
J.C. Ryle
#66. That you admire pure hearts and heroes, that you love good and evil, and that you believe in romance.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#67. We fear the monster's capacity for evil because we recognize it in human hearts.
Nick Sagan
#68. 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
#69. Open your hearts to the Lord. The Lord is waiting for you and the Church will welcome you if your willingness to serve good is as clear and public as your choice to serve evil was.
Pope Francis
#70. People know the difference between good and evil in their hearts - if they search them. Religions twist good and evil. Their differences are the kind that need to be taught because they aren't natural.
Julianna Baggott
#71. Come and let the healing, cleansing rays of Calvary play upon your hearts until the very seed of evil is sterilized.
Stuart Holden
