Charles Spurgeon Quotes

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.

And one of the elders of the city , said , speak to us of good and evil. And he answered : You are good in countless ways , and you are not evil when you are not good .

There is indeed good and there is indeed evil, and both walk the earth. But good has little to do with the forms of religion, and evil has as little to do with so much behavior condemned by religion. Both good and evil vie for the passions of the heart. For love!

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

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

Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.

There is good and there is bad in every human heart, and it is the struggle of life to conquer the bad with the good.

A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.

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.

Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.

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

I'm not an evil person. Nobody's really evil.

Our actions are neither so good nor so evil as our impulses.

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.

Evil is not interesting. What is it, chopping off someone's head? We used to do that as kids, you know, you tear up paper dolls and stuff. I know everyone's done it in the history of the world, but maybe everybody was dumb and they were just looking for something interesting to do. What's really interesting and hard is being good.

If reason dominates in man, he rises higher than angels. If lust overpowers man, he descends lower than the beast.

So far any one shuns evils, so far as he does good.

It is not human to be without shame and without desire.

All human beings search for either reasons to be good, or excuses to be bad.

At a simple level, good is that which helps people-evil is that which hurts people. At a higher level, good is that which is in harmony with divine purpose-evil is that which is out of harmony with divine purpose.

Evil, which is our companion all our days, is not to be treated as a foe. It is wrong to cocker vice, but we grow narrow and pithless if we are furtive about it, for this is at best a pretense, and the sage knows good and evil are kindred. The worst of men harm others, and the best injure themselves.

Good is to bee sought out, and evill attended.

For Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad things.