Nora Roberts Quotes

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.

To fight evil with activity is like fighting darkness with one's hands. So what you need is light, not fit.

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

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.

Very simply, our physical and spiritual safety lies in never even getting close to the line that separates light from dark, good from evil.

We all have a common enemy, and it is evil.

There is good and evil in each of us, and you can easily be led to the dark side.

Oh, this faithless world! Someone must deliver them. You. If not you, who? You have been saved for a reason. Show them the old demons. Remind them of their fear. Apathy is death. Without darkness, there is no light. Without evil, there is no good. Make them choose. Dark or light. Where is the fear? Where are the heroes? If not now, when?

Darkness cannot be overcome with more darkness, only with light. Violence cannot be overcome with more violence, only with peace.

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate... Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil -- widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.

You are the makers of your own fortunes. You make yourselves suffer, you make good and evil, and it is you who put your hands before your eyes and say it is dark. Take your hands away and see the light.

Dark things have always existed but they used to be in a proper balance with good when life was slower.

We sometimes feel the shadows have got hold of us, the shadows of evil. But still, it's up to us to fight.

The power of light is always bigger than the power of darkness.

We Christian writers must paint evil with the blackest of brushes, not to sow fear, but to call out the monsters to be scattered by our light. If Satan cloaks himself as an angel of white, intent on deceiving the world, any attempt on our parts to minimize evil is only complicit with his strategy... Turn to the light; don’t fear the shadows it creates.

When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind. When evil men shout ugly words of hatred, good men must commit themselves to the glories of love.

Be the first to seek to bring good, do not grow accustomed to evil, but defeat it.

At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience of crimes committed, suffered, and witnessed, that good and not evil will be done

Sometimes Evil pursues the Warrior of the Light, and when it does, he calmly invites it into his tent.

There is no ill which may not be dissipated, like the dark, if you let in a stronger light upon it.

The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.

There is a power now slumbering within us, which is awakened would do to evil what light does to darkness.

Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reigns.

My metaphor is that evil always has a top hat and a cape, and goodness is over there in the corner. For me it's just too easy, if you hate your country or your wife, so you kill them. You can't think through that, you can't feel through that, you can't do the work. And now we have guns. Solution? I don't think so.