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Far from mourning the loss, Christians delighted in it. As John Chrysostom crowed, the writings ‘of the Greeks have all perished and are obliterated’. He warmed to the theme in another sermon: ‘Where is Plato? Nowhere! Where Paul? In the mouths of all!’ The fifth-century writer Theodoret of Cyrrhus observed the decline of Greek literature with similar enthusiasm. ‘Those elaborately decorated fables have been utterly banned,’ he gloated. ‘Who is today’s head of the Stoic heresy? Who is safeguarding the teachings of the Peripatetics?’ No one, evidently, for Theodoret concludes this homily with the observation that ‘the whole earth under the sun has been filled with sermons’. Augustine contentedly observed the rapid decline of the atomist philosophy in the first century of Christian rule. By his time, he recorded, Epicurean and Stoic philosophy had been ‘suppressed’ – the word is his. The opinions of such philosophers ‘have been so completely eradicated and suppressed . . . that if any school of error now emerged against the truth, that is, against the Church of Christ, it would not dare to step forth for battle if it were not covered under the Christian name’.

Father never approved of my toys Saw them as child's playthings I was a child They were my world I ruled there And he stepped on them Destroying them And in turn Destroyed me I should have been left to play Now I must step on everything

Fight against illiteracy.

Finding meaning for life is simply coming into significance because you have been able to accomplish and fulfill your purpose.

Find out what you need to do to express your importance.

For centuries after obtaining power during the reign of Constantine, Christians went on a censorship rampage that led to the virtual illiteracy of the ancient Western world and ensured that their secret would be hidden from the masses. The scholars of other schools/sects evidently did not easily give up their arguments against the historicizing of a very ancient mythological creature. We have lost the exact arguments of these learned dissenters because Christians destroyed any traces of their works. Nonetheless, the Christians preserved the contentions of their detractors through their own refutations. For example, early Church Father Tertullian (c. 160-220 CE), an 'ex-Pagan' and a presbyter at Carthage, ironically admitted the true origins of the Christ story and other such myths by stating in refutation of his critics, 'You say we worship the sun; so do you. Interestingly, a previously strident believer and defender of the faith, Tertullian later renounced orthodox Christianity after becoming a Montanist.

For every seed of godliness, kindness and justice sowed, there will be surely be a harvest of goodness, significance and greatness.

For your life to have meaning is to discover what you are meant to fulfill.

Getting drunk with success and sick with ambition only leads to one route; destruction!

Go all the way and let your soul be in what you are doing and there will be no limitations.

God calls ignorance the rejection of knowledge, which simply means it is actually a choice to be ignorant.

God cannot help you in your ignorance.

God has individuals He has positioned for His purpose and to be used as His vessel at different time and season.

God has no business with irresponsible people.

God has no regard for the ignorant.

God has no tolerance for ignorance; therefore we should not have tolerance for ignorance also.

God hates ignorance.

God is helpless in our area of ignorance.

Godliness is not just a doctrine, a belief or a principle, it has a personality.

Godliness must be presented with its profit and incentives, not only for the good of the nation and society, but of eternal value.

God rules through light.

God through Prophet Hosea is explaining to us reasons for destructions, calamities, failures and devastations among the people of God. That reason is not seen in demonic activities nor is it seen in prevailing economic situations of the land

Go for the love that sets you free, not the love that destroys you from inside.

Great and pure thoughts cannot be deposited in minds accumulated with rubbish.

Greed is an excessive desire for something more than one’s proper share.

Guard yourself with a positive attitude, conviction, hope and fulfillment of your heart’s desire.

Hate and envy are like a bomb that cannot destroy anything without first destroying itself.

He was an artist, and she, an anarchist, the destroyer of his beautiful creations. His body tensed, pushing hot adrenaline through his body with irascible rage. His anger gave way to lamentation as his heart wailed for his lost inventions. His mind saw each one desperately screaming for help, their outcries echoing between the orange flames and ashy ruins of their compatriots.

He witnessed the destruction of everything he had ever created. These are the crippled pieces, the faces that he was stuck with; a puppet show that he could not get out of, all the strings tangled, the dead attached to the living.

How hardening to the heart it must be to do this thing: to change an innocent soaring being into a bundle of struggling rags and pain.

How must it have felt, Pikes, the night they seized your films, like entrails yanked from the camera, out of your guts, clutching them in coils and wads to stuff them up a stove to burn away! Did it feel as bad as having some fifty thousand books annihilated with no recompense? Yes. Yes. Stendahl felt his hands grow cold with the senseless anger.

Humans are destructive animals, but they are also wise ones.

I am the rightful ruler of this world And now that I, too, have awakened, like my dragons, I have come to take back what is mine.

I can't destroy things so beautiful." "Time will destroy them if you don't. Time destroys everything. But if you destroy them, it will mean something.

I could break things in a thousand ways--anything from surgical dismantling as meticulous as a bomb squad work to wrecking ball style mass destruction. If I broke a thing, it stayed broke. If I broke one of my things, I lived with the pieces, or replaced it.

If America and the Western world continue in their state of unconscious hopelessness, lack of faith and of fortitude, it is predictable that they will not be able to resist the temptation of the big bang by nuclear weapons, which would end all problems - overpopulation, boredom, and hunger - since it would do away with all life.

If a person is not free, his right is restricted.

If lawmakers in nations today refused to be bribed and be corrupted by some larger-than-life leaders, the people will be less insulted and molested by ungodliness and injustice.

If Nigeria will change for the better, then we must take responsibility for the changes in Nigeria.

…If one who slays one is a murderer then he who slays a thousand is not a hero,' said Lalu. - Pg. #112, Across the Black Waters.

If there is a construction or a pathway in the spirit to be made, it is the way of godliness.

For you to be able to turn on the light in the darkness, you have to live in the light.

Freedom to breed will bring ruin to all.

Generational oppression begins when what is meant to be transferred to one offspring has been taken over by reason of oppression.

Girls, watch out for the bad guys!...there are those capable of showering their resources on you just to dance on top of you, and finally destroy your good image and reputation.

Glorious creation, so easy to destroy, yet the palette of possibility somehow prevails.

God can only relate with us based on our level of knowledge.

God does not have any business with irresponsible people.

God hates sin not because he wants us to be good little boys and girls, but because he knows sin destroys that which he loves most: sinners.

God is limited by our ignorance.