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.
Quotes to Explore
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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 think the paparazzi is a necessary evil... and if ya don't like it, and ya don't want to do this, go to Iowa and do some community theatre. It's all about self-promotion, and it's not always the fun part of it.
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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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If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?
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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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The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.
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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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My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived; and as I can do neither good nor evil, I must be borne away by others and meet the common fate.
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We traveled so far and your friendship meant everything. It was very difficult, but there were moments of beauty. Everything ends. I am not afraid.
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All my life I've thought I needed someone to complete me, now I know I need to belong to myself.
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There is an unlucky tendency ... to allow every new invention to add to life's complications, and every new power to increase life's hustling; so that, unless we can dominate the mischief, we are really the worse off instead of the better.
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I would have loved to have been an architect - which, actually, would have been a disaster.
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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.
