Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes About Evil
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Whatever may be our condition in life, it is better to lay hold of its advantages than to count its evils.
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In some way the secret vice exhales its poison; and the evil passion, however cunningly masked, stains through to the surface.
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All evil, in fact the very existence of evil, is inexplicable until we refer to the paternity of God. It hangs a huge blot in the universe until the orb of divine love rises behind it. In that apposition we detect its meaning. It appears to us but a finite shadow as it passes across the disk of infinite light.
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In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when evils have grown insufferable they have touched the point of cure.
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A man can no more be a Christian without facing evil and conquering it than he can be a soldier without going to battle, facing the cannon's mouth, and encountering the enemy in the field.
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The way to overcome evil is to love something that is good.
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This is the essential evil of vice: it debases a man.
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When I contrast the loving Jesus, comprehending all things in his ample and tender charity, with those who profess to bear his name, marking their zeal by what they do not love, it seems to me as though men, like the witches of old, had read the Bible backward, and had taken incantations out of it for evil, rather than inspiration for good.
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