moral downfall Quotes

Villains are undone by what is worst in them, heroes by what is best.

Other vices make their own way; this makes way for all vices. He that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice.

The descent to hell is easy and those who begin by worshipping power, soon worship evil.

When Satan cannot get a great sin in he will let a little one in, like the thief who goes and finds shutters all coated with iron and bolted inside. At last he sees a little window in a chamber. He cannot get in, so he puts a little boy in, that he may go round and open the back door. So the devil has always his little sins to carry about with him to go and open back doors for him, and we let one in and say, 'O, it is only a little one.' Yes, but how that little one becomes the ruin of the entire man!

Avalanches of evil begin with a single pebble of sin.

When angels go bad they are worse than anyone else. Remember Lucifer used to be an angel.

He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.

A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house.

God planteth in mortal men the cause of sin whensoever he wills utterly to destroy a house.

The devil loves 'curing' a small fault by giving you a great one.

If there's anything to learn from the history of movies, it's that corruption leads to further corruption, not to innocence.

Men have torn up the roads which led to Heaven, and which all the world followed; now we have to make our own ladders.

Other sins find their vent in the accomplishment of evil deeds, whereas pride lies in wait for good deeds, to destroy them.

The media have, indeed, provided the Devil with perhaps the greatest opportunity accorded him since Adam and Eve were turned out of the Garden of Eden.

Nearly every grave moral failure begins with a small sin.

The spirits, they intoxicate me. I watched them infiltrate my soul. They try to say it's too late for me. Once I was promised absolution, there's only one solution for my sins. And I blame this world, for making a good man evil. Now I ain't getting into heaven, if the devil has his way.

That the reason why they are not fallen already and do not fall now is only that God's appointed time is not come. For it is said, that when that due time, or appointed time comes, their foot shall slide. Then they shall be left to fall, as they are inclined by their own weight. God will not hold them up in these slippery places any longer, but will let them go; and then, at that very instant, they shall fall into destruction; as he that stands on such slippery declining ground, on the edge of a pit, he cannot stand alone, when he is let go he immediately falls and is lost.

The world is turning into a cesspool of imbeciles.

They who once engage in iniquitous designs miserably deceive themselves when they think that they will go so far and no farther; one fault begets another, one crime renders another necessary; and thus they are impelled continually downward into a depth of guilt, which at the commencement of their career they would have died rather than have incurred.

When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.

The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him.

Smell is a fallen angel.

Bad company ruins good morals.