Quotes about Depravity

A man with some evil design, would he not be likely to speak well of that stupidity which was blind to his depravity, and malign that intelligence from which it might not be hidden?

The Bible says a man's heart is desperately wicked, and who can know it? We're all capable of more evil than we realize.

We can never grasp the extent of our depravity until we recognize the excellencies of our created dignity

I know now, from experience, that the path to joy winds through this dark valley. I think every well-adjusted human being has dealt squarely with his or her own depravity.

He sins because he is a sinner. Fundamentally, on the inside, man is a sinner, and that accounts for his actions. I am sure that many people in that day said of the Assyrians,

Let us, then, have it settled in our minds that the sinfulness of man does not begin from without, but from within. It is not the result of bad training in early years. It is not picked up from bad companions and bad examples, as some weak Christians are too fond of saying. No! It is a family disease that we all inherit from our first parents, Adam and Eve, and with which we are born.

Have we as a society become radically desensitized to the violence and depravity that is flooding from movie and television studios? It is not that we have become more broad-minded and intellectual; it is that we have adapted to the demonic and have become comfortable in the presence of evil.

The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.

But that we are so totally depraved, is a truth which no one ever truly learned by being only told it.

You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.

New York, like London, seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all the depravities of human nature.

Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.