James Rollins Quotes

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

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

Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.

I am justified. For I chose wisdom and the knowledge of good and evil ; and now there is no evil; and wisdom and good are one. It is enough.

The tree of Knowledge is a Tree of Knowledge of good and evil.

The battle between good and evil is endlessly fascinating because we are participants every day.

I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.

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

If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?

Anytime there's a God, there has to be a devil. And anytime there's good, there has to be evil. And the evil sometimes is the best!

The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

It's the dualistic ways of looking at things that produces the evil.

There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.

Inside each of us, there is the seed of both good and evil. It's a constant struggle as to which one will win. And one cannot exist without the other.

I suspect that here theists and atheists would agree: Human beings have within them the ability to choose evil or good. We wake up each day facing the age-old struggle of good and evil. In some situations, mental illness clouds our judgment.

Some people may believe that their conscience is enough to guide them not to lie, be deceitful or do the other things God has commanded us not to do. I disagree.

We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.

Politics are not the task of a Christian.

The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either – but right through every human heart – and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained. And even in the best of all hearts, there remains…an unuprooted small corner of evil. Since then I have come to understand the truth of all the religions of the world: They struggle with the evil inside a human being (inside every human being). It is impossible to expel evil from the world in its entirety, but it is possible to constrict it within each person.

The Lord gave all Christians the authority to judge all doctrines, to judge freely what is right and what is wrong.

The true knowledge of good and evil arouses disturbances of the mind