Thomas Jefferson Quotes

I confess I have yet to learn that a lesson of the purest good may not be drawn from the vilest evil.

When great evils happen, I am in the habit of looking out for what good may arise from them …

Out of evil can come great good.

Sometimes a blessing will come out of mistakes.

In the course of our lives, the evil which in itself we seek most to shun, and which, when we are fallen into, is the most dreadful to us, is oftentimes the very means or door of our deliverance, by which alone we can be raised again from the affliction we are fallen into.

Much of what happens in our world is evil and bad, but God specializes in bringing good out of it.

You never know how things will work out. After all the bad reasons in the world, some good came out.

Sometimes the bad things that happen in our lives put us directly on the path to the best things that will ever happen to us.

I'm very confident that God has a way of bringing good from difficulty.

Sometimes, lovely surprises come out of things going wrong.

Showing just the dark side doesn't always work. The important thing is to show what we can learn from dark things, what good we find there.

I don't think 'Shotgon Stories' or 'Take Shelter' have hopeless endings. I think there's hope in both those films, no matter how hard you have to search for it. It's there.

There's always something good to come out of disappointment: Comfort.

The general order of things that takes care of fleas and moles also takes care of men, if they will have the same patience that fleas and moles have, to leave it to itself.

Sometimes God makes use of instruments for good to His people, who designed nothing but evil and mischief to them. Thus Joseph's brethren were instrumental to his advancement in that very thing in which they designed his ruin (Gen. 50:20).

Evil is retributive: every trespass slips fetters on the will, holds the soul in durance till contrition and repentance restore it to liberty.

. . . it is true, even people with painful childhoods. . . grow up to be more interesting people. So, there's always a positive to a negative.

Sometimes, out of really horrible things come really beautiful things.

Sometimes things have to go wrong in order to go right.

But the nearer the dawn the darker the night, And by going wrong all things come right. Things have been mended that were worse, and the the worse, the nearer they are to mend.

When bad things turn good, the reason can usually be found in the human heart—sometimes in the hearts of great masses of people, sometimes in the heart of a solitary soul.

Every evil has its good, and every ill an antidote.

Often does good come out of evil. But that is God's, not man's plan.

Christ's sacrifice stands in glorious proportions with the work to be done. Nothing else or less would suffice. It is a work supernatural, transacted in the plane of nature; and what but such a work could restore the broken order of the soul under evil?

We need to 'go out,' then, in order to experience our own anointing, its power and its redemptive efficacy: to the 'outskirts' where there is suffering, bloodshed, blindness that longs for sight, and prisoners in thrall to many evil masters.