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Somehow, strangely (and to us sometimes even annoyingly), the Creator God will not simply abolish evil from his world. The question that swirls around these discussions is, Why not? We are not given...

In a poignant tribute written after his son’s passing in a climbing accident, Nicholas Wolterstorff reflects: When we have overcome absence with phone calls, winglessness with airplanes, summer he...

In this stirring and thoughtful argument, N.T. Wright illustrates the complexity of evil by telling the story of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and his return to his home country of Russia after many years in...

Dear Everybody, We have a serious problem: All of us think we’re good people. But Jesus says we’re not. Sincerely, Brant P. Hansen

God would never permit evil, if He could not bring good out of evil.

Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.

If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also...

The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality, but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.

We do not know why God’s judgment makes a good man poor, and a wicked man rich. . . . Nor why the wicked man enjoys the best of health, while the man of religion wastes away in illness. . . . Even the...

A good end cannot sanctify evil means; nor must we ever do evil, that good may come of it.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.

The knowledge of good and evil seems to be the aim of all ethical reflection. The first task of Christian ethics is to invalidate this knowledge.

Good and evil - I don't believe that there is hanging out there, anywhere, something called good and something called evil.

Our judgements of good and evil ... presuppose God as the standard. If there's no God, there's neither good nor evil. There's just nature doing what it does.

While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern.

In a strictly scientific sense God is at the bottom of both good and evil.

The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.

Good and evil increase at compound interest. That's why the little decisions we make every day are of infinite importance.

If we’re unable or unwilling to discern a norm to judge what is good and evil, the whole moral order will tumble into confusion. If we don’t get the moral facts straight, a variety of “crises” will co...

There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil.

When you pass beyond good and evil, you pass into the realm where might is right, and where anything that reminds you of the old moral values—for instance, a large Jewish community—stands in your way ...

No man chooses evil because it's evil. He only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

Badness is only spoiled goodness.

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing mora...

Good people know about both good and evil: bad people do not know about either.

The battleline between good and evil runs through the heart of every man.

Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse. Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear; unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf, unbelief s...

Good and evil appear to be joined in every culture at the spine.

Free will is the power of choosing good and evil.