Pastoral Resources

This also is a part of the Church's teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at a certain time, and is to be destroyed on account of its wickedness.

Wickedness is its own punishment.

Tolerating evil leads only to more evil. And when good people stand by and do nothing while wickedness reigns, their communities will be consumed.

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.

Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

After a sound drubbing followed by half a day's fasting, I felt more like laughing than like crying; and, in half a while, all was forgotten and my wickedness began afresh and worse than ever.

When may a revival be expected? When the wickedness of the wicked grieves and distresses the Christian.

Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.