Sentence examples for reality of evil from inspiring English sources

For instance, often enough believers want to know if their belief in God makes sense given the reality of evil.

Like that film, this novel uses a childs perception tinged with wonder and never entirely alive to the reality of evil as a way of manipulating the emotional tone.

As Kilgour writes, it was in "The Monk" — the story of a depraved monk falsely believed to be virtuous — that we first saw a division between "an appearance of innocence and integrity, and a reality of evil and doubleness," opposites that "hypocrisy superficially reconciles" in the story "by confusing the natural and the artificial".

His tale of an embittered Church of Scotland minister confronted by the reality of evil was exceptional not just because it asked such huge questions of itself and then answered them so successfully, but because in writing it at all Robertson was taking a direct swipe at one of Scotland's key texts, James Hogg's The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner.

Asked about President Bush's evocations of "good versus evil in war," Mr. Obama warned that such talk could dull Americans' readiness to look critically at their own nation's actions, but he carefully framed that warning by affirming the reality of evil in the world and the moral obligation it sometimes created to take up arms.

The three great monotheistic traditions, with their ample insistence on the reality of evil, offer little reason to try to defuse the problem of evil by this route.

The chapter on ethics is a reminder that scientific daydreams can be as wild as you like, but scientific reality operates in a world of evil and good, and as a general rule "science works for evil when its effect is to provide toys for the rich".

Like the sun, the reality of this evil cannot be directly looked at.

But even though individual scenes and sets -- a marble stadium turned into a mental hospital; any moment when DOMINIQUE SANDA appears on screen -- burn themselves into your mind like gnomic dream pictures, the climactic scene of assassination and cowardice brings you back to the brute reality of political evil with a force rarely matched, before or since.

"Does not the experience of hard truths -- of the unchosen, the inexplicable, the tragic -- remind us that we can never be fully at home in the world, especially if we are to take seriously the reality of human evil?" The council also asked whether the blunting of our recollections of "shameful, fearful and hateful things" might also blunt our memories of the most wondrous parts of our lives.

For example, it is sometimes argued that the existence of such morally good things as benevolence and charity depend, logically, on the reality of specific evils such as pain and suffering.