Best 908 quotes in «destruction quotes» category

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 any locals had seen the dark-robed group as they moved through the darkness they might well have felt the stirrings of fear. Monks – anonymous, rootless, untraceable – were able to commit atrocities with near impunity. ‘Our angels’ some Christians called them. Rubbish, said non-Christians. They were not angels but ignorant, boorish thugs, men in appearance only who ‘led the lives of swine, and openly did and allowed countless unspeakable crimes’. As the author Eunapius wrote with sardonic distaste: ‘in those days every man who wore a black robe and consented to behave in unseemly fashion in public, possessed the power of a tyrant, to such a pitch of virtue had the human race advanced!’ Even a wholeheartedly Christian emperor mutedly observed that ‘the monks commit many crimes’. And on that night, these monks were about to commit another. Shenoute’s target was not, this time, one of his monks but one of the wicked, godless pagans. In sermon after furious sermon Shenoute had turned his famously fiery prose on these people. Their hearts were ‘the nests of the spirits of wickedness’. If disturbed then these evil people would spit out poison. The Bible, Shenoute told his congregants, said that those who set up pagan images should be killed. As he put it in one particularly vigorous sermon, God wished His people to ‘remove the abominations from His presence’. The emperors, Shenoute thundered, had declared that the entire earth must be cleansed of perversions. No stone was to be left on top of any other stone of any pagan temple. Not one. In the entire earth.

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

If God can only relate with us based on our level of knowledge that means God is limited to our ignorance.

If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker.

If it is God’s business, then it should be your business.

If it is only one thing in life that you have or allowed to discover, then it must be your significance.

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 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 the Edfu Texts contain a record of these events, as I have proposed, then we should take seriously the message they transmit, that there were survivors of the cataclysm who made it their mission to bring about: 'The resurrection of the former world of the gods. ... The re-creation of a destroyed world.' These survivors are said to have wandered the earth, setting out and building sacred mounds wherever they went, and teaching the fundamentals of civilization, including religion, agriculture, and architecture.

If there is anything the leaders in the society or the nations must take note of is to know the importance of justice.

If there is anything the devil will want to keep you from having, it is knowledge.

If the weeds are removed and there is nothing planted, it is the weeds that will keep growing.

If we destroy our time, time also destroys us very badly

If and when our civilization comes to ruin, the destructive agent will be Science; man's knowledge of science, applied to warfare, meaning slaughter not only of human bodies, but of human institutions, of all we have created through the centuries.

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

If people in the position of power are not made to be accountable, then, ungodliness, injustice and oppression will continue to be the order of the day in the society.

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

If there is any society where the leaders lack the knowledge and the importance of justice, then oppression will be a common neighbor of the citizens.

If we could be humble enough to submit our passions, sentiments and even weaknesses to God Almighty, he would successfully convert them to something positive that would eventually glorify Him.

If we fail, the planet will grow sterile and your people will die in hunger, thirst and waves of plagues. Our people and the thrm's will die more slowly because the poisons here will render us unable to conceive. The skies will cease to be blue, the land will lose its verdure and the seas, well, the seas will be the first to go. Anything that does survive will be broken, mutant, discontinuous from us and mutually exclusive. It will be the new life of a shattered world, a world for chitinous, crawly things, not one for soft and tender emotion. I hope, child, I have answered your question." Meg said nothing. None of it made sense, but she still felt an urge to deny it, deny it, even though Ekaterina's strange, rolling words carried a ring of truth. Suddenly, the autumn chill cut through all her layers of bundling wraps. She could not stop shivering.

If you are faithful in little things, then you will be given a bigger commitment.

If you are frustrated with the elite of your society, do something about it.

If you are going to speak out against injustice, if you are angry at ungodliness in the society, then you have the opposing force to contend against.

If you are ready to make a difference and shine, then you must be ready to pay the price by laboring rightly with your mouth and with hands.

If you are really angry, then you must be willing to pay the price of being alone or be remanded for someone else to have their freedom, illumination and justice.

If you destroy the foundations of anything, the structure will collapse. If you want to destroy any building, you are guaranteed early success if you destroy the foundations.

If you do not love something, then it does not belong to you. For it wont be long, before you destroy that something, exactly because, you do not love it.-

If we really want to represent God in our day and time, we must embrace knowledge.

If you say merit does not matter but miracles or favor matters, you are equally destroying yourself and nation.

If you see your country going through economic problems, the best thing to do is to come up with a strategy, plan and vision of how to affect the economy of the nation, rather than simply fixing your own individual economic problem.

If you want to know what God thinks about any situation in the world, think like a parent.

If you have committed all things to impacting a life at a time, or impacting a community or society, then welcome to a life of significance.

If you have experienced injustice and insulted by the ungodliness, then you are a candidate to stand against the same.

Ignorance actually limits God from intervening in the misfortunes of our personal lives and that of our society.

Ignorance can stifle learning, especially if the ignorant person believes that he or she is not ignorant.

Ignorance is darkness.

Ignorance leads to destruction.

Ignorance leads to economic failures.

Ignorance leads to leaving in self-deception.

Ignorance leads to low income.

If we start to complain, destruction is right at our door

Ignorance is the deepest sin of dark doom.

Ignorance is a limitation.

Ignorance is a very useful weapon in the hands of the devil against humanity, especially Christians.

Ignorance is what is destroying us and not the devil.

I might, indeed, read history; but whenever I attempt to do so, I am to tell you the truth, driven from it by disgust—What is it, but a miserably mortifying detail of crimes and follies?—of the guilt of a few, and the sufferings of many, while almost every page offers an argument in favor of what I never will believe—that heaven created the human race only to destroy itself.

I'm waltzing with the wrecking ball 'Cause this ain't my home anymore.

I have no fear of ghosts, and I have never heard it said that so much harm had been done by the dead during 6,000 years as it brought by the living in a single day.

In any case, he made me think the unheard-of: The world could go on after our destruction.