126 Quotes About Depravity

If you spend your life on a moral hill-top, you see nothing but the mud below. If, like me, you live in the mud itself, you get a damned good view of clear blue sky and clean green hills above. There's none so evil-minded as those with a moral mission, and none so pure in heart as the depraved.

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.

A poem, novel, or play acquires all of humanity's disorders, including the fear of mortality

Why, since folly or perversity is expected of individuals, should we expect anything else from government?

Violent crimes had increased from 120 per 100,000 in 1962 180 per 100,000 by 1964.

The love of humanity does not prevent us from being good journalists.

Sin is the native language in every ZIP code.

Every artifact of human culture is a positive response to God's general revelation and simultaneously a rebellious assertion against His sovereign rule over us.

Jesus takes the chaos of the world upon Himself.