John Milton Quotes

The eternal conflict of good and the best with bad and the worst is on.

Terrible is the temptation to be good.

Up until today evil has lured goodness into evil, but goodness has not been able to lure evil into goodness. This may be the reason why up to today Christianity has not been able to boldly fulfill the Will of God.

When I sit down to write a novel, I am exploring my own relationship with God, with the struggle between good and evil, my own purpose.

Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.

To me, evil comes when you have a choice between that and good, and you choose the wrong way.

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

Evil has always been here since the world began. Good is what is difficult. It is a work of every day.

Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil. For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst? Verily when good is hungry it seeks food even in dark caves, and when it thirsts it drinks even of dead waters.

Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly.

Everyone spends their lives trying to balance their world between good and evil.

You've got to walk and talk with God to go to heaven... I have the devil in me! If I didn't have, I'd be Christian!

I really wanted to be nasty and mean and bad. It's so much easier than being the good girl.

I did spend a lot of time as a child very confused about whether I had a devil in me, or whether I was in a state of grace. I mean, these ideas are so potent to anybody with half an imagination.

People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

The more I had to act like a saint, the more I felt like being a sinner.

It's obviously a lot harder to try and be a good guy than it is to be a bad guy. The world is a fundamentally evil place, it seems like. So in order to be a good person, you have to fight temptation and vice.

He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty.

Then I proceeded to Williamsburg, where I found all well. I went to the capitol where I sent for the wench to clean my room and when I came I kissed her and felt her, for which God forgive me.... About 10 o’clock I went to my lodgings. I had good health but wicked thoughts, God forgive me.

Good people struggle against what's imperfect about them. The people that we call 'bad' people embrace that kind of stuff, embrace the darker side.

Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.