inner corruption Quotes

A corrupt practice may be abolished, but a soiled imagination is not easily cleansed.

Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.

With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself.

Greed has poisoned men's souls.

Often a noble face hides filthy ways.

Good intentions can be evil, both hands are full of grease. You know, sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace.

The true Christian's nostril is to be continually attentive to the inner cesspool.

When I say that life is like an onion, I mean this: if you don't do anything with it, it goes rotten. So far, that's no different from other vegetables. But when an onion goes bad, it can either do it from the inside, or the outside. So sometimes you see one that looks good, but the core is rotten. Other times, you can see a bad spot on it, but if you cut that out, the rest is fine. Tastes sharp, but that's what you paid for, isn't it?

When you're afraid, you look to amass power to defend yourself, not realizing that can also be corrupting.

When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer demands to be believed.

Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state.

I see that any materialism in life coarsens the soul, and that the hunger of the body and the appetites of the flesh desecrate always, and often destroy.

The seed of sin is in us when we are born.

The deadliest sin were the consciousness of no sin

The desire for success lubricates secret prostitution in the soul.

A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.

Some people have the disease of criticising all the time. They forget the good about others and only mention their faults. They are like flies that avoid the good and pure places and land on the bad and wounds. This is because of the evil within the self and the spoiled nature.

The soul of man, when it gets fairly rotten, will bear you all sorts of poisonous toad-stools, and no eye can see whence came the seed thereof.

It's not a question of God 'sending' us to Hell. In each of us there is something growing up which will of itself be Hell unless it is nipped in the bud.

A man I knew who lived upon a smile, And well it fed him; he look'd plump and fair, While rankest venom foam'd through every vein.

Know what is evil, no matter how worshipped it may be. Let the man of sense not mistake it, even when clothed in brocade, or at times crowned in gold, because it cannot thereby hide its hypocrisy, for slavery does not lose its infamy, however noble the master.

A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and, in order to divert himself, having no love in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest forms of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal. And it all comes from lying - lying to others and to yourself.

The ulterior motives with which you absorb and assimilate Evil are not your own but those of Evil.

As the salt flavors every drop in the Atlantic, so does sin affect every atom of our nature. It is so sadly there, so abundantly there, that if you cannot detect it, you are deceived.

Oh, this base heart of ours! Hath it not enough tinder in it to set on fire the course of nature? If a spark do but fall into it, any one of our members left to itself would dishonour Christ, deny the Lord that bought us, and turn back into perdition.