Sun Myung Moon Quotes

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

Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss

Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.

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

'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.

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.

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

It's obviously a lot harder to try and be a good guy than it is to be a bad guy. The world is a fundamentally evil place, it seems like. So in order to be a good person, you have to fight temptation and vice.

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

If we may not remain silent about evil in the Church, then neither should we keep silent about the great shining path of goodness and purity which the Christian faith has traced out over the course of the centuries.

At the bottom of a Peretti novel is the biblical view of things, the Christian message. Whether you're a Christian or not, you're still going to have to deal with good versus evil.

Evil has always been here since the world began. Good is what is difficult. It is a work of every day.

Temptation is a suggested short cut to the realization of the highest at which I aim - not towards what I understand as evil, but towards what I understand as good.

Satan always tempts the pure - the others are already his.

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.

Terrible is the temptation to be 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.

Good people can't out-think evil, cause evil thinks of things good folks can't think of.

Evil was seductive and easy, and virtue was difficult and unappreciated.

The only way I know to drive out evil from the country is by the constructive method of filling it with good.

Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.

Pastors have historically understood their primary battle to be not the battle to build a big church, but the battle against the power of sin.

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

I think goodness is very powerful, but often evil is made more attractive in films. It's a challenge to make goodness appealing.

I really wanted to be nasty and mean and bad. It's so much easier than being the good girl.