Max von Sydow Quotes

I have been used for a purpose, and there will be a certain tragic occurrence happening if you don't take my testimony and somehow vindicate me so my people don't suffer because of what I have done.

You know, we all can do bad, and we all can do good.

There is no sin but ignorance.

The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.

If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.

Our instinct has outrun our theory in this matter; for while we still insist upon free will and sin, we make allowance for individuals who have gone wrong, on the very ground of provocation, of temptation, of bad education, of infirm character.

Anybody that has had a brush with what feels like undiluted evil often ends up asking themselves the same questions - whether it's something that was a consequence of their own actions or actions that were taken against them or actions that they were caught up in.

Human beings are capable of great good, but also of the basest evil.

Lord, forgive them, for they know what they do!

It is only out of ignorance that people are cruel, because they really don't think it will come back.

From the days of Cain and Abel, we know all too well there will always be evil. But that evil shouldn't take away our freedoms.

So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident.

Thou know'st the first time that we smell the air we wawl and cry. When we are born we cry, that we are come to this great state of fools.

There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance.

There's no such thing as an original sin.

They do injury to the good who spares the bad.

'The Gambler' by Dostoevsky. It was the first time I realised that it was possible to have good and evil in one person. It led me to read a lot of Russian literature.

I think God gives every one of us our own will, and unfortunately, some people choose to do evil things with it.

Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives.

In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.

All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.

It is very difficult to give a 15 second sound bite on why there is pain and suffering in this world and not have it come off as being flippant or surface level or superficial.

We know enough to stand here in truth - facing pain, cry and suffering of those who were murdered here. Face to face with the victims' families who are here today. Before the judgment of our own conscience.

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

No one who errs unwillingly is evil.