But whoever has a will in opposition to the Divine will, has an evil will.
But malice of the will does not depend on the malice of the end intended; since a man who wills to steal in order to give alms, has an evil will, although he intends a good end.
Therefore whoever does not conform his will to the Divine will, as to the thing willed, has an evil will.
If therefore by the external action no further goodness or malice be added, it is to no purpose that he who has a good or an evil will, does a good deed or refrains from an evil deed.
For when we are stripping a man of the lawlessness of sin, it is good for him to be vanquished, since nothing is more hopeless than the happiness of sinners, whence arises a guilty impunity, and an evil will, like an internal enemy.
Now all that comes of the root of an evil will is a sin.
First, because he is unwilling to assent to Christ: and such a man has an evil will, so to say, in respect of the very end.
At the close of this millennial period, evil will again be permitted to exert its utmost power in a final conflict with righteousness.
We are concerned here with the reasons for willing, and the means God uses when he gives us a good will or permits us to have an evil will.
In this way it is possible often to avoid an evil will.
For an evil will is in its department what the evil principle of the Manichaeans would be in the universe; and reason, which is an image of the Divinity, provides for evil souls great means of causing much evil.
On the other hand, if this hypothetical thing has a bad will, I wish to know what made it so; and that we may not go on for ever, I ask at once, what made the first evil will bad?
For that is not the first which was itself corrupted by an evil will, but that is the first which was made evil by no other will.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "evil will" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
