Depravity Quotes

“Without a heart transformed by the grace of Christ, we just continue to manage external and internal darkness.”
― Matt Chandler, The Explicit Gospel

“God's relationship with man does not work in a way in which man stumbles and then God has to drop what he is doing in order to lift him up; rather, man stumbles so that God can lift him up. Hence it is utterly impossible to truly diminish his glory.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“You cannot change people but you can change the system so that people are not pushed into doing evil things.”
― Slavoj Žižek

“He that becomes protector of sin shall surely become its prisoner.”
― Augustine of Hippo, City of God

“Fuck, I love you,” he whispers, his hand wrapped around my neck, crushing the chain into my already sensitive skin. “Remember that when I rip you apart.”
― Shantel Tessier, The Ritual

“In a fallen world marked by human depravity and deep-seated sin, in a world where Hitler and Stalin had recruited millions of followers to commit mass murder, love must harness power and seek justice in order to have moral meaning. Love without power remained impotent, and power without love was bankrupt.”
― Timothy B. Tyson, Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story

“The seed of every sin known to man is in my heart”.”
― Robert Murray McCheyne

“What's simple is that everything good comes from God, and everything bad comes from man. Where it gets complicated is that everything seemingly good but ultimately bad comes from man, and everything seemingly bad but ultimately good comes from God.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“As his body became more and more defenseless, so his means of offense became steadily more frightful.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey

“When virtue has slept, it will arise again all the fresher.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

“You do that, and I take back every nasty thing I've ever said about you."
He grinned, his mood changing from serious to wicked in an instant. "Why? I'm all those things and more.”
― Jeaniene Frost, Home for the Holidays

“All these institutions [prisons] seemed purposely invented for the production of depravity and vice, condensed to such a degree that no other conditions could produce it, and for the spreading of this condensed depravity and vice broadcast among the whole population.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Resurrection

“If I created a new depravity I would be a priestess, while my imitators would founder, after my reign, in abominable filth...Don't you think that proud men, copying Satan, are more guilty than the Satan of the Bible, who invented pride? Is Satan not respectable because of his unprecedented and divinely inspired sin?”
― Rachilde, Monsieur Vénus

“The shape of evil is much more superficiality and blindness than the usual list of hot sins. God hides, and is found, precisely in the depths of everything.”
― Richard Rohr, Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

“True gospel preaching always changes the heart. It either awakens it or hardens it.”
― Chan Kilgore

“You'd never get Burle to behave decently. When a man sank as low as that, the only thing to do was to throw a spadeful of mud over him and get rid of him like the rotting carcass of some poisonous beast. And even if you shoved his nose in his own shit, he'd only start again the next day and end up stealing a few sous to buy sticks of barley sugar for lice-ridden little beggar-girls.”
― Émile Zola, The Attack on the Mill and Other Stories

“Our insight into the need of redemption will largely depend upon our knowledge of the terrible nature of the power that has entered our being.”
― Andrew Murray, Humility: The Journey Toward Holiness

“We owe God a "double debt" incurred by our passive receipt of Adam's debt but also by our active disobedience. The extent of our depravity is such that we also owe a "daring debt" because we challenge not only God's Law but His very grace as we blame Him that He has not done enough.”
― Foppe Vander Zwaag

“Such are the cellars over which the proud castles of tyranny rise and above which the aromas of their feast swirl: putrid caves of a gruesome kind in which the depraved rabble regales itself with the violation of human dignity and liberty for all eternity.”
― Ernst Jünger, On the Marble Cliffs

“It is true that we are never so filled with pity as at the sight of beauty touched by the pestilential breath of depravity. Let ugliness join hands with it, but beauty, beauty is delicate...It mingles in our thoughts only with what is pure and clean.”
― Nikolai Gogol, Nevsky Prospect

“Society has reached such extreme heights of absurdity, and massive depths of depravity, that I can no longer accurately distinguish between truth and satire. That line is as blurry as Bigfoot.”
― Jarod Kintz, A Memoir of Memories and Memes

“I am increasingly strengthened in my belief in God for the simple reason that I’ve repeatedly witnessed the depravity of men.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“People often ask, ‘why do bad things happen to good people?’ and I say, ‘that’s only happened once and He volunteered.”
― R.C. Sproul

“God finds nothing in man to turn His heart, but enough to turn his stomach.”
― Joseph Alleine, A Sure Guide to Heaven

“When wealth and riches are at stake, there is no depth a human might not drop to for a chance to obtain them.”
― Jeffrey Hann, COVID19 – Short Path to 'You'll Own Nothing. And You'll Be Happy.': Welcome to the New Age of Tyranny

“The sin-ridden heart does not fear God but fears man, and when saying it loves men, it loves sin.”
― Criss Jami

“An attitude of Thanksgiving cannot be reconciled to any notion of entitlement, for the two stand at odds so diametrically opposed that one must be eradicated if the other is to survive. Therefore, we will either choose to be lavishly enriched by an attitude of thanksgiving that will not be diminished by depravity of any kind, or we will spend our lives fleeing from a depravity that we could not elude because we worked to obtain what we declared to be ours but never was.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Depravity has nothing to do with wealth.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Twice already I have mentioned that strayed chicks fall a prey to "hooligan" cocks. These hang about the rookery often in little bands. At the beginning of the season there are very few of them, but later they increase greatly, do much damage, and cause a great deal of annoyance to the peaceful inhabitants. The few to be found at first probably are cocks who have not succeeded in finding mates, and consequently are "at a loose end." Later on, as their numbers are so greatly increased, they must be widowers, whose mates have lost their lives in one way or another.
Many of the colonies, especially those nearer the water, are plagued by little knots of
"hooligans," who hang about their outskirts, and should a chick go astray it stands a good chance of losing its life at their hands. The crimes which they commit are such as to find no place in this book, but it is interesting indeed to note that, when nature intends them to find employment, these birds, like men degenerate in idleness.”
― George Levick

“Those innocent eyes slit my soul up like a razor,”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov