Sheri S. Tepper Quotes

There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil.

Liberty is the right of every man to be honest, to think and to speak without hypocrisy.

Society needs both justice and compassion, a head and a heart, if it is to be civilised.

I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what's evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We're less sure about what is good. There's sort of good, good enough, could be better - but absolute good is a little harder to define.

What we have in us of the image of God is the love of truth and justice.

Love is stronger than justice.

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

To repay evils with kindness is the religion I was taught to practise, and this will forever be my rule.

Every act, every deed of justice and mercy and benevolence, makes heavenly music in Heaven.

Honesty is of God and dishonesty of the devil; the devil was a liar from the beginning.

The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts: but who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do?

There are some men whose enemies are to be pitied much, and their friends more.

He that does evil hates the light.

I don't want to be uncharitable or unkind. I want to be as harsh as truth and as comforting as justice.

There are some acts of justice which corrupt those who perform them.

Can law, human law, change the nature of things? Can it turn darkness into light, or evil into good? By no means. Notwithstanding ten thousand laws, right is right, and wrong is wrong still. There must still remain an essential difference between justice and injustice, cruelty and mercy. … Who can reconcile this treatment of the Negroes, first and last, with either mercy or justice?

Compassion towards the wicked – is cruelty to all beings.

No man-made law will ever eliminate cruelty and evil from every human heart.

I don't hate anyone. I just see the evil some pretend doesn't exist.

We do not live by justice, but by grace.

Let us be merciful as well as just.

Tell troth and shame the devil.

Men do not so much hate an evil-doer, or evil itself, as they hate the man who calls evil by its real name.

Goodness is to do good to the deserving and love the good and hate the wicked, and not to be eager to inflict punishment or take vengeance, but to be gracious and kindly and forgiving.

Mercy surpasses justice.