Sigmund Freud Quotes

Not until we take God seriously will we ever take sin seriously.

Anybody that has had a brush with what feels like undiluted evil often ends up asking themselves the same questions - whether it's something that was a consequence of their own actions or actions that were taken against them or actions that they were caught up in.

He has more of a right to ask us why so many people are starving [than we do to ask Him]. As much as we want God to explain himself to us, His creation, we are in no place to demand that He give an account to us.

It was Christianity which first painted the devil on the worlds walls; It was Christianity which first brought sin into the world. Belief in the cure which it offered has now been shaken to it's deepest roots; but belief in the sickness which it taught and propagated continues to exists.

You leave out God, and you substitute the devil.

But alas, if I have not maintained my victory, it is God's fault for not making man and the devil of equal strength.

Where does guilt and punishment lie, and are we not more expressive over remorse or guilt when other people see the badness in us?

Unfortunately, in today's world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from the fact that in it we ask God to bear witness to the promises we make with the implicit expectation that He will hold us accountable for the manner in which we honor them.

I want to see these bad, bad, bad, bad men come to grips with their humanity.

We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent.

People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.

Religious leaders need to be held accountable for their ideas.

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

This actual question of 'Why does God allow war?' is not considered or raised as such in the Bible at all.

In the West, people don't have any real problems. It's all based on bad conscience, a very Christian notion. I don't have any bad conscience. If there's a God that created us, if I am bad, it's his fault.

The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.

If our wondrous kindness is evidence for God, is our capacity for great evil proof of the Devil?

There's lots of sins in this life. We're all sinners. If you don't believe in God and you don't believe in the scriptures, then we are on a different page.

Responsibility: A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.

When, therefore, man lives according to man, not according to God, he is like the devil.

If I do bad, shoot me.

I was never much bothered about moral questions like, 'How could there be a good God when there's so much evil in the world?'

Clinicians, academicians, and politicians are often put to a test of faith. In pursuit of their goals, will their religion show or will it be hidden? Are they tied back to God or to man?

Since I am as evil as can be, I do need religion to offset my evilness!

I believe for God not to allow pain to happen in the world is for Him to extract free will from the world.