David F. Wells Quotes
Evil by its very nature opposes the purposes of God, but God, in his sovereignty, can make even this evil serve his purposes.

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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
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Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.
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One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed.
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I used to think the press was a necessary evil and now I don't think it is. I think it's something you choose.
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A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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Love truly does have the power to transcend evil. It can get us through the most unspeakable of events and give us the strength to keep on putting one foot in front of the other.
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I read a lot on the subject and had many conversations, and I have come to the conclusion that the Catholic Church is a force for evil.
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At the end of the day, I'm not some evil guy.
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The reason societies with democratic governments are better places to live in than their alternatives isn't because of some goodness intrinsic to democracy, but because its hopeless inefficiency helps blunt the basic potential for evil.
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He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.
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Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.
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There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.
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'Dallas' hit a chord back in the late Seventies and Eighties because it was the age of greed: here you have this unapologetic character who is mean and nasty and ruthless and does it all with an evil grin. I think people related to JR back then because we all have someone we know exactly like him. Everyone in the world knows a JR.
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To me the earth's most explosive and pernicious evil is racism, the inability of God's creatures to live as One, especially in the Western world.
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Ascetic Christianity called the world evil and left it. Humanity is waiting for a revolutionary Christianity which will call the world evil and change it.
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Much of the obscurity of our effort so far against terrorism originates in the now official idea that the enemy is evil and that we are (therefore) good, which is the precise mirror image of the official idea of the terrorists.
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Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.
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The die is set, and Malcolm shall not escape, especially after such evil foolish talk about his benefactor, Elijah Muhammad. Such a man as Malcolm is worthy of death.
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I always worry that I'm a dilettante: I know something about lots of things but don't have exhaustive knowledge of much.
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If I could go to Kabul and not die, I would go back to Afghanistan as soon as I could. And, that was the most interesting place that I've been to.
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I learned long ago that home is a word that applies to people, not places... Didn't matter to me where I was - it mattered who I was with.
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Honestly, Flav is not much of a video game player these days. BUT, I used to spend hours on Time Crisis. I beat all levels, man.
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There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present.
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Evil by its very nature opposes the purposes of God, but God, in his sovereignty, can make even this evil serve his purposes.