Hyman Rickover Quotes

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

'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.

You've got to walk and talk with God to go to heaven... I have the devil in me! If I didn't have, I'd be Christian!

Anytime there's a God, there has to be a devil. And anytime there's good, there has to be evil. And the evil sometimes is the best!

How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.

What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.

In the present world, this technological, psychotic, politicised, nonsensical world, you have to believe that the good guys are going to win! That evil will be banished somehow!

I find myself evil. I believe in the devil as much as God. You can use either one to get things done.

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

The whole concept of the devil is a metaphor on one level.

As for the Devil - that is somebody our religion tried to do without for a long time.

In the middle of everything evil, in an evil place, you can find goodness. Goodness. I'd even call it godliness.

I sing about heaven and hell, angels and demons.

Good and evil. Right and wrong.Those are two fundamental opposing concepts that define the nature of humankind.

Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.

All my books are an inquiry into the nature of evil. Why do good people do bad things? Are any human beings completely evil? Do we all have good within us? That's what I'm interested in.

I'm a religious, spiritual person, but if there is good in the world, there must be evil, too.

Human beings are capable of great good, but also of the basest evil.

The devil is a very big angel, but a very little man.

"Are you a devil?" "I am a man," answered Father Brown gravely; "and therefore have all devils in my heart."

Three is the number of those who do holy work; Two is the number of those who do lover's work; One is the number of those who do perfect evil Or perfect good.

And my haunting instinct that somehow good was not merely a tool to be used, but a relic to be guarded, like the goods from Crusoe's ship--even that had been the wild whisper of something originally wise, for, according to Christianity, we were indeed the survivors of a wreck, the crew of a golden ship that had gone down before the beginning of the world.

Do not forget, do not ever forget, that you have promised me to use the money to make yourself an honest man.' Valjean, who did not recall having made any promise, was silent. The bishop had spoken the words slowly and deliberately. He concluded with a solemn emphasis: Jean Valjean, my brother, you no longer belong to what is evil but to what is good. I have bought your soul to save it from black thoughts and the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God.

The Devil doesn't fear austerity but holy obedience.

If you scratch some saints you will find the devil.