Best 97 quotes in «catastrophe quotes» category

When a soul in sin, under the impetus of grace, turns to God, there is penance; but when a soul in sin refuses to change, God sends chastisement. This chastisement need not be external, and certainly it is never arbitrary; it comes as an inevitable result of breaking God’s moral law. But the entrenched forces of the modern world are irrational, men nowadays do not always interpret disasters as the moral events they are. When calamity strikes the flint of human hearts, sparks of sacred fire are kindled and men will normally begin to make an estimate of their true worth. In previous ages this was usual: a disordered individual could find his way back to peace because he lived in an objective world inspired by Christian order. But the frustrated man of today, having lost his faith in God, living as he does, in a disordered chaotic world, has no beacon to guide him. In times of trouble he sometimes turns in upon himself, like a serpent devouring its own tail. Given such a man, who worships the false trinity of (1) his own pride, which acknowledges no law; (2) his own sensuality, which makes earthly comfort it goal; (3) his license, which interprets liberty as the absences of all restraint and law—then a cancer is created which is impossible to cure except through an operation or calamity unmistakable as God’s action in history. It is always through sweat and blood and tears that the soul is purged of its animal egotism and laid open to the Spirit … Catastrophe can be to a world that has forgotten God what a sickness can be to a sinner; in the midst of it millions might be brought not to a voluntary, but to an enforced crisis. Such a calamity would put an end to Godlessness and make vast numbers of men, who might otherwise lose their souls, turn to God.

Whenever a nation or a group of people is devoid of light, catastrophe comes, calamity hits, there is danger everywhere.

When flash of hope scans through your dreams. When news of goodness skims the surface of your expectations and bravery abates, break not, keep pressing less the dreams of your fingers suffer extinction.

Why the two [gigantic obelisks left unfinished at the Aswan quarry] were never finished is unknown. It appears that the workers simply stopped and never came back. The same possibly was the case at the Serapeum at Saqqara, where most of the 100 ton boxes were never finished. If these are pre-dynastic works as expected, then the great cataclysm of 12,000 years ago could have been the culprit - massive earthquakes and possibly solar blasts devastating all life in these and other areas. There is a massive horizontal crack in the bottom of the right channel of the great obelisk that also may have been the reason [...]. On another note, the left and right channels of the great obelisk would have been too narrow for workers to be shaping them with dolerite stone pounders. A lot of force would be required to remove any material at all, and having a foot or two of clearance would result in very little if any stone removal.

Your life is just a series of catastrophes followed by a poorly executed sword swallowing side show

Your name still rings a bell when you say something good, not by causing catastrophe in a bid to sound more interesting.

As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrophe from start to finish.

As soon as there's a crisis, there are people who take charge and want to control others. Climate-change catastrophe and human migration and immigration are great for corporate and governmental control over people, and we have to contend with that. I should say, I see corporate control behind everything that the government is working on right now.

Continued inflation inevitably leads to catastrophe.

Being broke is not a disgrace, it is only a catastrophe.

Catastrophe is numerical. Loss is singular, one beloved at a time.

If everything moves along and there are no major catastrophes we're basically headed towards holograms.

Do the math. Expect catastrophes. Whatever happens, stay the course.

Good stuff tends to happen gradually, whereas violence or catastrophes are deemed more newsworthy.

I am not writing in metaphors. I am writing about catastrophes.

I confess some part of me thought, If only I'd stuck around, this is the sort of catastrophe I might have created.

History: the category of human phenomena which tends to catastrophe.

Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.

It's not natural for people in the opposition to leave. It's always a personal catastrophe.

I’ve never tried to keep a specific person alive before, and it’s much more troublesome than I would have believed. But that’s probably just because it’s you. Ordinary people seem to make it through the day without so many catastrophes.

Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience.

I'm planning a catastrophe.

In our grandparents' generation news of an earthquake in Nepal would reach around the world some days later. In our parents' day the nightly news communicated the catastrophe. Now it's a matter of minutes. We've barely processed one crisis, and then we hear of another.

One man's death: that is a catastrophe. A hundred thousand dead: that is a statistic

No connection between Iraq and the 9/11 catastrophe.

So many awful things have happened in Karachi, it's true. It has its own crazy rhythm. Even as crazy as other news is in Pakistan, the city manages to beat that in the frequency of catastrophes.

Other than sports, only war and catastrophe can create this sort of national unity.

Prophesying catastrophe is incredibly banal. The more original move is to assume that it has already happened.

Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.

Shakespeare very rarely makes the least attempt to surprise by his catastrophes. They are felt to be inevitable, though the precise way in which they will be brought about is not, of course, foreseen.

So many catastrophes in love are only accidents of egotism.

Sometimes a catastrophe is simply a course correction.

Specialisation paralyses, ultra-specialisation kills. Palaeontology is littered with such catastrophes.

The biggest catastrophes that we've witnessed rarely come from information that is secret or hidden. It comes from information that is freely available and out there, but that we are willfully blind to.

They [Democrats] are the troubadours and the crooners of catastrophe.

The catastrophe now threatening us is unprecedented - and we often confuse the unprecedented with the improbable.

The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.

The only concern which I have today is that we have a policy, a foreign policy, which enables us to avoid a catastrophe; which, if one understands it properly, is indescribable.

The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.

The universe remains dark. We are animals struck by catastrophe.

We hope that as a species we're capable of dealing with environmental catastrophe before it actually does collectively kill most of us.

To lose a passport was the least of one’s worries. To lose a notebook was a catastrophe.

We need not stride resolutely towards catastrophe, merely because those are the marching orders.

Whenever there is a catastrophe, some religious people inevitably ask, 'Why didn't God do something? Where was God when all those people died?'

What is the alternative to peace? A catastrophe for both peoples [Palestine and Israel].

An all-out attack on evolutionist thinking is possibly the only real hope our nations have of rescuing themselves from an inevitable social and moral catastrophe.

While catastrophes do enter the lives of godly people, they attach themselves far more to people who reject Him.

Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?

You, Ms. Lane, are a menace to others! A walking, talking catastrophe in pink!

Wild globalization has benefited some, but it's been a catastrophe for most.