 It is not only that sin consists in doing evil, but in not doing the good that we know. Author: Harry Ironside |
| These days its not just that the line between right and wrong has been made unclear, today Christians are being asked by our culture today to erase the lines and move the fences, and if that were not bad enough, we are being asked to join in the celebration cry by those who have thrown off the restraints religion had imposed upon them. It is not just that they ask we accept, but they now demand of us to celebrate it too. Author: Ravi Zacharias |
| There are a hundred men hacking at the branches of evil to every one who is striking at the roots of evil. Author: Henry Ward Beecher |
| Good deeds are such things that no man is saved for them, nor without them. Author: Thomas Adams
Source: A Puritan Golden Treasury |
| I realize that many Christians have not been praying because they have not accepted the reality of war in which we find ourselves. There is a spiritual war mode that we must appropriate. It is an aggressive stance that we take against evil. It is governed by love for people, but it is fearless and uncompromising with the powers of darkness that manipulate people to fulfill evil plans. Author: Francis Frangipane |
| Too many Christians become bitter and angry in the conflict. If we descend into hatefulness, we have already lost the battle. We must cooperate with God in turning what was meant for evil into a greater good within us. This is why we bless those who would curse us: It is not only for their sakes but to preserve our own soul from its natural response toward hatred. Author: Francis Frangipane |
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| At the very moment when the pulpit has fallen strangely silent about sin, fiction can talk of little except evil, not indeed viewed as sin, but apparently as the invariable ways of a peculiarly repulsive insect, which it can't help, poor thing; and there is no manner of use expecting anything from it, except the nastiness natural to it. Author: A.J. Gossip |
| A Christian must always be kind, gracious, and wise in order to conquer evil by good. Author: John of Kronstadt |
| Evil by its very nature opposes the purposes of God, but God, in his sovereignty, can make even this evil serve his purposes. Author: David F. Wells |
| There is in man a mint always at work: his mind coining evil thoughts, his heart, evil desires and carnal emotion; and his memory is the closet and storehouse wherein they are kept. Author: Thomas Manton |
| God would never permit evil, if He could not bring good out of evil. Author: Augustine |
| The difference between God's side and the devil's is the difference between heaven and hell. Author: Billy Sunday |
