Tom Robbins Quotes

You know, we all can do bad, and we all can do good.

The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.

God and the devil are inherent in each of us. It's our choice to make: you can take the road to good, you can take the road to bad. Well, we have a choice.

Everythings a choice. Nobody's born good. Nobody's born evil. It's always a choice.

The history of the world shows that when a mean thing was done, man did it; when a good thing was done, man did it.

It is not God's function to create or uncreate the circumstances of your life. God created You, in the image and likeness of God. You have created the rest.

Man can, indeed, act contrarily to the decrees of God, as far as they have been written like laws in the minds of ourselves or the prophets, but against that eternal decree of God, which is written in universal nature ...

To me, evil comes when you have a choice between that and good, and you choose the wrong way.

Real Christianity can be summed up in two commands: Love God, and love people.

Evil isn't prejudiced. It doesn't care what you look like; it just wants a place to rest. It's up to you whether you give it that place.

Everybody has a hero and a villain within themselves. So it depends upon you to be a hero or a villain. If you show humanity, it will give you satisfaction.

Some of the greatest Christians I know are people who don't actually have a kind of faith system that they believe in. But, in their activity, the way they conduct themselves, there's a goodness there.

We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.

Morality pertains only to the sphere of man's free will - only to those actions which are open to his choice.

The distinction between good and evil is meaningless if one does not have the freedom to choose between them.

To love means to give, and to give means to build, while to hate is to destroy.

Man must choose his world

There can be no Christianity where there is no charity

If God were to remove all evil from our world (but somehow leave human beings on the planet), it would mean that the essence of 'humanness' would be destroyed. We would become robots.

While you live, while it is in your power, be good.

Ethan Wate: What I can't figure is, you go to church everyday, how do you believe in all of this and still believe in God? Amma: God created all things didn't he? Only man will decide which ones is mistakes. - Beautiful Creatures

A religious man is a person... whose greatest passion is compassion.

Everybody's got the potential for great good and great wrong in them, but it's the choices we make that define who we really are.

Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners.

A human being is not one thing among others; things determine each other, but man is ultimately self-determining. What he becomes-within the limits of endowment and environment-he has made out of himself.