Quotes about Good From Evil

Max Weber

It is not true that good can only follow from good and evil only from evil, but that often the opposite is true.

Thomas Jefferson

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

Louise Erdrich

We are never so poor that we cannot bless another human being, are we? So it is that every evil, whether moral or material, results in good. You'll see.

Thomas Jefferson

When great evils happen, I am in the habit of looking out for what good may arise from them as consolations to us, and Providence has in fact so established the order of things, as that most evils are the means of producing some good.

George W. Bush

Out of evil can come great good.

However, the Irish Republican Army would not allow anyone to tell the authorities what had happened. The sisters went public starting a scandal which put enormous pressure on the IRA for reform. The sisters were invited to meet with members of Congress and the President.

Charles Dickens

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

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

You believe
In God, for your part?--that He who makes
Can make good things from ill things, best from worst,
As men plant tulips upon dunghills when
They wish them finest.

John Flavel

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).

Good From Evil Quotes