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This sign I give you: every people speaks its tongue of good and evil, which the neighbor does not understand. It has invented its own language of customs and rights.

Man's natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil.

The greatest cause of evil included all human motives in one giant paradox. Good and bad were so inextricably mixed that we couldn't make them out; bad seemed to lead to good, and good motives led to bad. The paradox is that evil comes from man's urge to heroic victory over evil.

There is no doubt that healthy-mindedness is inadequate as a philosophical doctrine, because the evil facts which it refuses positively to account for are a genuine portion of reality; and they may after all be the best key to life's significance, and possibly the only openers of our eyes to the deepest levels of truth.

Therefore, it is we who are responsible for much of the evil in the world; and we are each morally required to accept rather than project that ponderous responsibility-lest we prefer instead to wallow in a perennial state of powerless, frustrated, furious, victimhood. For what one possesses the power to bring about, one has also the power to limit, Mitigate, counteract, or transmute.

There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite.

To desire Him to be merciful to us is to acknowledge Him as God. To seek His pity when we deserve no pity is to ask Him to be just with a justice so holy that it knows no evil and shows mercy to everyone who does not fly from Him in despair.

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!

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.

People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.

The only war that we must all fight is the one against evil.

We cannot give up in the face of evil. God is Love and he has defeated evil through Christ’s death and resurrection.

Jesus’ Cross shows the full force of evil, but also the full power of God’s mercy.

We have to build a better man before we can build a better society.

Be the first to seek to bring good, do not grow accustomed to evil, but defeat it.

The God I find in Christ is a God who overcomes evil with good, hate by love, and the world by a cross.

Evil is real - but so is God's power and love.

Christians must respond to evil with good, taking the cross upon themselves as Jesus did

If Christ has risen the Bible is true from Genesis to Revelation. The kingdom of darkness has been overthrown. Satan has fallen like lightning from heaven; and the triumph of truth over error, of good over evil, of happiness over misery, is forever secured.