Because hope is of good things, as being possible of attainment; whereas fear is of evil things, as being difficult to repel, so that fear regards the aspect of difficulty more than hope does.
But this must be understood either on a condition, the antecedent of which is impossible--as, for instance, if we were to say that God can do evil things if He will.
Objection 1: It seems that God does not know evil things.
But the countenance of the Lord is against them that do evil things: to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
The desire that is accomplished, delighteth the soul: fools hate them that flee from evil things.
Clemency prepareth life: and the pursuing of evil things, death.
The lovers of evil things deserve to have no better things to trust in, both they that make them, and they that love them, and they that worship them.
Now if you think, when I say the saints have all their evil things in their lifetime, that I mean, they have nothing else but trouble in this their lifetime, this is your mistake.
What shall I say, Christians as Christians have other things to do than to concern themselves in evil things, or to meddle in other men's matters.
He that could have transgressed, and hath not transgressed: and could do evil things, and hath not done them: 31:11.
Error and darkness are created with sinners: and they that glory in evil things, grow old in evil.
There is success in evil things to a man without discipline, and there is a finding that turneth to loss.
He had to do with three women who were worldly, hard, and given entirely to evil things.
Now, in evil things, the perfect is the greatest evil, as the Philosopher states (Metaph.
Just as pleasure results from hope and memory of good things, so does sorrow arise from the prospect or the recollection of evil things; though not so keenly as when they are present to the senses.
And we urge you to take the "evil things" now, and the "good things" hereafter.
At last the tranquil Angelus of evening rings Night's curtain down for comfort and oblivion Of all the vanities observèd by the sun: Sufficient for the day are the day's evil things!
Labour and longing and despair the long day brings; Patient till evening men watch the sun go west; Deferred, expected night at last brings sleep and rest: Sufficient for the day are the day's evil things!
Epictetus must mean things which they know to be evil--evil things as evil.
And in the blinding storm they saw a form move on the waves; it seemed to be a man, and one spoke out and said, It is a ghost, a sign of evil things.
That which defiles a man wells up from carnal thoughts; and carnal thoughts spring from the heart, and generate a host of evil things.
There are no rules that can apply to all, for men are specialists in sin; each has his own besetting sin, 18 And each must study for himself how he can best transmute his tendency to evil things to that of righteousness and love.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "evil things" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
