All the seven deadly sins are self destroying, morbid appetites, but in their early stages at least, lust and gluttony, averice and… — Angus Wilson Copy Share Image
Real love brings about calm-not inner torment. True love allows you to be at peace with yourself and with God. That is… — Yasmin Mogahed Copy Share Image
I did not want to think so much about her. I wanted to take her as an unexpected, delightful gift, that had… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
Thoughts that deny reincarnation are transformed in the next life into an inner unreality, an inner emptiness of life; this inner unreality… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
Heavens! whatever possesses us, here below, that we mutually torment ourselves, sourly reproach our mutual faults, and mercilessly condemn all that is… — George Sand Copy Share Image
Let fire and the cross; let the crowds of wild beasts; let tearings ... let shatterings of the whole body; and let… — Ignatius of Antioch Copy Share Image
“As your consciousness, refinement and pureness of heart expands you will become less judgmental, less corrective, less reactive, less black-and-white, less critical,… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
If God wishes to be born as man and to unite mankind in the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, He suffers the… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
You men have none of you any hearts.' 'If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Life can be beautiful, profound, and awe-inspiring, even without an irate god threatening us with eternal torment. — Judith Hayes Copy Share Image
It all made sense - terrible sense. The panic she had experienced in the warehouse district because of not knowing what had… — Flora Rheta Schreiber Copy Share Image
What, but the rapacity of the only men who exercised their reason, the priests, secured such vast property to the church, when… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
“it has to be emphasized that if the pain were readily describable most of the countless sufferers from this ancient affliction would… — William Styron Copy Share Image
If I had to sit in Heaven forever, knowing that there are these people, millions and millions- probably billions of people, suffering… — Richard Carrier Copy Share Image
Asceticism, it is evident, has a double motivation. If men and women torment their bodies, it is not only because they hope… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I have a scholar's love of silence and solitude. To sit and pass hour after hour in idle chatter with a roomful… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
Since God wishes it - there is nothing to be done. . . Why should you thus torment yourself? Get rid of… — Margaret Mary Alacoque Copy Share Image
Wickedness frames the engines of her own torment. She is a wonderful artisan of a miserable life. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
As to those in whom the will of God is not inwardly accomplished,-because there is no inward life in them, for they… — Johann Gottlieb Fichte Copy Share Image
On the mountains there is freedom! The world is perfect everywhere, save where man comes with his torment. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some of the things I did in my early career were massive learning curves because I had no one to guide me.… — John Caudwell Copy Share Image
The painting showed a hairless, oppressed creature with a head like an inverted pear, its hands clapped in horror to its ears,… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
There's a kind of release And a kind of torment in every goodbye for every man. — Cecil Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
Like I tell everyone, I say the bottom line to my life is that I've gone through torments in my life, but… — John Carlos Copy Share Image
We don't have much in the way of a business strategy. Like no business plan. Which I say to torment all my… — Craig Newmark Copy Share Image