Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Faith in to-morrow, instead of Christ, is Satan's nurse for man's perdition. — George Barrell Cheever Copy Share Image
For a woman, all resurrection, all salvation, from whatever perdition, lies in love; in fact, it is her only way to it. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Let no man trust the first false step of guilt; it hangs upon a precipice, whose steep descent in last perdition ends. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Whatever happens, never forget that people would rather be led to perdition by a man, than to victory by a woman. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Pleasure, like a kind of bait, is thrown before everything which is really bad, and easily allures greedy souls to the hook… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
I'm Galladon, from the sovereign realm of Duladel. I'm most recently from Elantris, land of sludge, insanity, and eternal perdition. Nice to… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
There was a period... when I used to say, with as much ferocity as I could muster, 'I hate Henry James, and… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
... a bad attitude, that the love of money is the root of all evil and the rich are evil and greedy… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a… — Eliza Farnham Copy Share Image
The holy angels live and qualify in the light, in the good quality wherein the Holy Ghost reigneth. The devils live and… — Jakob Bohme Copy Share Image
In theology, the state of a luckless mortal prenatally damned. The doctrine of reprobation was taught by Calvin, whose joy in it… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
And woman is the same as horses: two wills act in opposition inside her. With one will she wants to subject herself… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do not like the late resurrection of the Jesuits. . . . If ever any congregation of men could merit eternal… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Wonderful nature has a double meaning, which dazzles great minds and blinds uncultivated souls. When man is ignorant, when the desert is… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
A child rightly trained may be a world-wide blessing, with an influence reaching onward to eternal years. But a neglected or misdirected… — George Muller Copy Share Image
The minister today preached about death and judgment, and what would become of those who behaved improperly - and somehow it scared… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
This is perdition: the things to which the heart was attached pass away while the person himself, who is an eternal being,… — Johan Oscar Smith Copy Share Image
I certainly never believed, more or less, in the "essential doctrines" of Christianity, which represent God as the predestinator of men to… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Part of battle has been getting Hollywood to recognize that comic books and superheroes are not synonymous. That's been a huge breakthrough,… — Michael Uslan Copy Share Image
Apart from the positive woes of perdition, an eternity of wretchedness grows from the want of love to Christ as naturally as… — Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd Copy Share Image
If you can impress any man with an absorbing conviction of the supreme importance of some moral or religious doctrine; if you… — Henry Thomas Buckle Copy Share Image
The old men of the village of Mahotière say that the Mistress of the Water is a mulatto woman. At midnight she… — Jacques Roumain Copy Share Image
The Holy Ghost carries on the whole Christian system in this earth. Not a Baptism, not a Marriage, not a Sacrament can… — John Adams Copy Share Image
O Woe to his blinded soul! Saying this, he as it were said to God: "Thou Thyself are guilty, because the woman… — Symeon the New Theologian Copy Share Image
“If the Pentateuch be true, religious persecution is a duty. The dungeons of the Inquisition were temples, and the clank of every… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Unable to rid myself of it, since I heard your song humming ever in my head, beheld your feet dancing always on… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The envy of excellence leads to perdition; the love of it leads to the light. — George Gilder Copy Share Image
For the spear was a desert physician, That cured not a few of ambition, And drave not a few to perdition, With… — James Elroy Flecker Copy Share Image
Though love repine, and reason chafe, There came a voice without reply,- "'Tis man's perdition to be safe, When for the truth… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
To a zealot every one of his own sect is a saint, while the most upright of a different sect are to… — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image