Sentence examples for existing evil from inspiring English sources

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We are not told to wage wars against bootleggers, liquor stores, gamblers, murderers, prostitutes, racketeers, prejudiced persons or institutions, or any other existing evil as such.

In his own words "God knows that I detest slavery, but it is an existing evil, for which we are not responsible, and we must endure it, till we can get rid of it without destroying the last hope of free government in the world".

And when we talk about delusion, we are not talking about some mystical, inherently existing evil, some externally existing creature or problem… We are basically talking about a mistaken idea, or a mistaken habit.

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In The Devil's Dictionary (1906), the American writer Ambrose Bierce cynically (but not inappropriately) defined the conservative as "a statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others".

Instead of passively existing in evil times, Jesus proactively offered to liberate people from the bonds of oppression and the lies of the Empire by inviting all to a new identity rooted in grace, love, hope, and justice.

The logical problem of evil emerges from four core propositions: An all-powerful (omnipotent) God could prevent evil from existing in the world.

Evil, evil, evil.

An all-good (omnibenevolent) God would wish to prevent evil from existing in the world.

A short clip from the end of The Evil of the Daleks episode 1 was found to have been used in The Wheel in Space episode 6 when it was discovered that the clip, previously thought to have been from the reprise in the existing episode 2 of Evil, contained three frames not present in the reprise.

The more it relies on land-based supplies of fuel and water, the harder it will be to achieve the libertarian dream of escaping the evil ways of existing governments.

Rebellion won out, of course, and cooperation ceased; but the exigencies of trade and finance sufficed to draw the two empires back together in time to fight the Axis challenge, which rose like an evil travesty of existing imperialisms.

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