Amanda Hocking Quotes

I felt it was my duty to praise all of God's works with fervent enthusiasm. At the same time I killed flies in my house in a spirit of hatred, exasperation and contempt. My praise to God for all his works was dishonest, the act of killing the fly was honest.

If virtue cannot shine bright, but by the conflict of contrary appetites, shall we then say that she cannot subsist without the assistance of vice, and that it is from her that she derives her reputation and honor?

This is pity,” he thought, and then he lifted his head in wonder. He thought that there must be something terribly wrong with a world in which this monstrous feeling is called a virtue.

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.

Any time the character is in a moral quandary is interesting. That's been true from the Greeks on down.

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

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.

Evil borders upon good, and vices are confounded with virtues; as the report of good qualities is delightful to a well-disposed mind, so the relation of the contrary should not be offensive.

What 'Twilight Zone' did was show we all have a great capacity for good and evil.

We may not have demon fathers dangling offers of infernal power before us, but everyone understands what it means to struggle with temptation or resist the urge to give in to our baser natures.

If this isn’t good versus evil, what is?

We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice.

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.

Always listen to the voice of your conscience. If your conscience conflicts with your faith, question everything.

Being against evil doesn't make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself. I could feel it coming just like a tide... I just want to destroy them. But when you start taking pleasure in it you are awfully close to the thing you're fighting.

Virtue that transgresses is but patched with sin; and sin that amends is but patched with virtue.

We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the neverending contest in ourselves of good and evil. And it occurs to me that evil must constantly respawn, while good, while virtue, is immortal. Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.

Goodness is equally hateful to the wicked, as vice is to the virtuous.

I never was so rapid in my virtue but my vice kept up with me.

two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there.

He who cannot hate the devil cannot love God.

Conscience and covetousness are never to be reconciled; like fire and water they always destroy each other, according to the predominancy of the element.