Quotes about Wrongdoing

He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion.

You cannot do wrong and feel right. It is impossible!

The Christian - the biblical - concept of mercy toward wrongdoers only exists in relation to justice. Showing mercy, in relation to wrongdoing, means treating someone better than they deserve.

Because still, in spite of everything, I have not enough faith in God. He has given me so much - which I certainly do not deserve - and I still do so much that is wrong every day.

Punishment is justice for the unjust.

Habit is as fatal to a sense of wrongdoing as to active enjoyment.

Surely God wrongs not men anything, but themselves men wrong.

The Temple Pharisees were known as keepers of the tradition, staunch defenders of the Jewish law — and the minutiae with which they had surrounded it. Unlike the Sadducees, ardent foes on the Temple Council, the Pharisees traveled about Judea, lecturing in synagogues and searching out any perceived wrongdoing.

everyone has, to some degree, a subconscious belief in their own worthlessness. Narcissists have the same feelings, but instead of acknowledging them, they cover them up with a delusional denial of all wrongdoing.

He who is bent on doing evil can never want occasion.

wrongdoing has a way of robbing one even of common sense. Why

He [man] knows that when he is not what he ought to be; when he does what he ought not to do; or omits what he ought to do, he is chargeable with sin