Alice Munro Quotes

For shameful deeds are taught by shameful deeds.

Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.

The better day, the worse deed.

He that does evil hates the light.

One drop of hatred in your soul will spread and discolor everything like a drop of black ink in white milk.

O little souls! as pure as white And crystalline as rays of light Direct from heaven, their source divine; Refracted through the mist of years, How red my setting sun appears, How lurid looks this soul of mine!

Hatred and cark and care, what place have they / In yon blue liberality of heaven?.

You little know what you have done, when you have first broke the bounds of modesty; you have set open the door of your fancy to the devil, so that he can, almost at his pleasure ever after, represent the same sinful pleasure to you anew.

A man without religion or spiritual vision is like a captain who finds himself in the midst of an uncharted sea, without compass, rudder and steering wheel. He never knows where he is, which way he is going and where he is going to land.

Even hatred of vileness Distorts a mans features.

Hate won't only destroy us. It will destroy these people that's hating as well.

If you can only remain pure in your stupidity, someday you may get a phone call from hell.

It would be a great thing if people could be brought to realize that they can never add to the sum of their happiness by doing wrong.

It is dangerous and harmful to be guided in our life's course by hatreds and aversions, for they are wasteful of energy and limit and twist the mind and prevent it from perceiving the truth.

Religion must be loved as a kind of country and nursing-mother. It was religion that nourished our virtues, that showed us heaven, that taught us to walk in the path of duty.

Anger and hatred are the real enemies that we must confront and defeat, not the 'enemies' who appear from time to time in our lives.

The devil never gave a gift for free.

Religion brought forth Prosperity, and the daughter destroyed the mother.

Christ said, "Resist not evil", and we do not understand it until we discover that it is not only moral but actually the best policy, for anger is loss of energy to the man who displays it. You should not allow your minds to come into those brain-combinations of anger and hatred.

Every uncorrected error and unrepented sin is, in its own right, a fountain of fresh error and fresh sin flowing on to the end of time.

The Devil may also make use of morality.

I think I'm led by spirit. I think I'm led by a sense of what is right and what feels good to me - what I accept, what is joyful, what is positive. I see my mission, in a way, as carrying that forward - not so much by preaching, but by embodiment.

Hatred, rancor, and the spirit of vengeance are useless baggage to the artist. His road is difficult enough for him to cleanse his soul of everything which could make it more so.