Cain Quote by Annie Dillard

The world has been tragic since the day Adam and Eve sinned in the garden. From that moment murder, mayhem and war entered the…

— Louie Giglio

For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to self-sacrifice, the more we insist on it in others.

— Bolesław Prus

“People have traditionally turned to ritual to help them frame and acknowledge and ultimately even find joy in just such a paradox of being…

— Michael Pollan

There's a constant level of risk in farming that so few movies let you feel. I wanted to show some of that, but also,…

— Lee Isaac Chung

“It is hard work to control the workings of inclination and turn the bent of nature; but that it may be done, I know…

— Charlotte Brontë

“If we have been diligent to hide the Word of God in our hearts, and if we continue to labor over that Word, we…

— T.D. Jakes

We need limitations and temptations to open our inner selves, dispel our ignorance, tear off disguises, throw down old idols, and destroy false standards.…

— Helen Keller

Ever since man began to till the soil and learned not to eat the seed grain but to plant it and wait for harvest,…

— S. I. Hayakawa

Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and…

— William Butler Yeats

We shall awaken from our dullness and rise vigorously toward justice. If we fall in love with creation deeper and deeper, we will respond…

— Hildegard of Bingen

Every temptation is an opportunity of our getting nearer to God.

— John Quincy Adams

Temptation provokes me to look upward to God.

— John Bunyan