Billy Graham Quotes

I really believe that 'Saw' makes us stop and think and question our motives and what we're doing here on Earth.

One of our great thematic traditions in Bad Religion has been to question human nature.

The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.

There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.

Humanity is the sin of God.

Government can try to make the world a little better, but can we alter the human condition? No. We can't make saints out of sinners. St. Augustine had something to say about that.

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.

Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.

The freewill you have given, we have made a mockery of.

It was not that Adam ate the apple for the apple's sake, but because it was forbidden. It would have been better for us-oh infinitely better for us-if the serpent had been forbidden.

The very first temptation in the history of mankind was the temptation to be discontent...that is exactly what discontent(ment ) is - a questioning of the goodness of God.

Since Adam and Eve ate the apple, man has never refrained from any folly of which he was capable.

Man indeed is the most noble, by creation, of all the creatures in the visible World; but by sin he has made himself the most ignoble.

When Eve upon the first of Men The apple press'd with specious cant, Oh! what a thousand pities then That Adam was not Adamant!

Many have puzzled themselves about the origin of evil. I am content to observe that there is evil, and that there is a way to escape from it, and with this I begin and end.

I think that fiction is an excellent place for us to struggle with questions of good and evil, and humanity and inhumanity.

The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.

We have to believe in free will. We’ve got no choice.

I can tell you that good people do bad things.

I don't believe that pure evil exists, personally.

Probably the only way Woody Allen and I are similar is that he has a lot to say about Nietzsche.

The poet complains or points out the discontent that lies at the heart of man, the individual man, and how can that be redeemed?

I'm a Nietzschean scholar. I've read an immense amount about nihilism and existentialism.