I don't doubt that God can bring good out of tragedies, but the Bible is clear that God is not the author of evil!
The problem of evil... Why does God permit it? Or, if God is omnipotent, in which case permission and creation are the same, why did God create it?
I don't think Obama's a socialist or evil, I just think he's wrong and I disagree with him, he's a leftist, that's what they are in France and in Great Britain and in Canada.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind, so the relation of the contrary should not be offensive.
The fundamental evil of the world arose from the fact that the good Lord has not created money enough.
Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them.
'Star Wars' is mythology. It's like Greek mythology or Shakespeare. It's the story of good versus evil over a very long span of time. The storytelling is universal and timeless.
Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated.
A man can look upon his life and accept it as good or evil; it is far, far harder for him to confess that it has been unimportant in the sum of things.
I tend to think of action movies as exuberant morality plays in which good triumphs over evil.
If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will.
I'm actually an evil bastard in real life. Fark allows me to vent weirdness. Thank god for that, too.
Be virtuous in thought and in deed. God has planted in you, for a purpose, a divine urge which may be easily subverted to evil and destructive ends.
The priesthood of God is a shield. It is a shield against the evils of the world. That shield needs to be kept clean; otherwise, our vision of our purpose and the dangers around us will be limited.
I've been performing my whole life. My mom signed me up for a theater program when I was five - I was the evil queen in 'Once Upon a Mattress.'
I love the 'Underworld' movies because the vampires aren't automatically evil, yet neither are they basically humans with fangs.
A lot of Christians look at Hollywood as the ultimate evil. But what it did for me is it sharpened my ability to love people and appreciate people, no matter where they're at in their lives.
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.
Like sin itself, Satan appeals to the senses. He originated and perfected the art of disguising evil as good.
