Faith in to-morrow, instead of Christ, is Satan's nurse for man's perdition. — George Barrell Cheever Copy Share Image
Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped poverty. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The envy of excellence leads to perdition; the love of it leads to the light. — George Gilder 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 am indeed willing to acknowledge what I have done, an error and presumption. I will call it an error and presumption… — Deborah Sampson Copy Share Image
“The urbane activity with which a man receives money is really marvelous, considering that we so earnestly believe money to the root… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Learning to know anxiety is an adventure which every man has to affront if he would not go to perdition either by… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“She thought, If I or my father or any Boughton has ever stirred the Lord's compassion, then Jack will be all right.… — Marilynne Robinson 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
The world owes its enchantment to these curious creatures and their fancies; but its multiple complicity rejects them. Thistledown spirits, tragic, heartrending… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
I felt like a seed in a pomegranate. Some say that the pomegranate was the real apple of Eve, fruit of the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
She was the temptress who had ensnared the first man, and who still continued her work at damnation; she was the being… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
…the poor of the world cannot be made rich by redistribution of wealth. Poverty can't be eliminated by punishing people who've escaped… — P. J. O'Rourke 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
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
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
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
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
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
Do not forget, do not ever forget, that you have promised me to use the money to make yourself an honest man.'… — Victor Hugo 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 way of mutual strife and exclusiveness is the only way to perdition and slavery. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Naturally, everyone loves his freedom, but we must beware of this as of a broad road that leads to perdition. — Vincent de Paul 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
