Desolation Quotes

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A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way. — Fisher Ames
Without out suffering, our work would just be social work, very good and helpful, but it would not be the work of Jesus Christ, not… — Mother Teresa
Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay. — George Meredith
A lean cheek, - a blue eye, and sunken, - an unquestionable spirit, - a beard neglected:- Then your hose should be ungartered, your bonnet… — William Shakespeare
Christianity indeed has equaled Judaism in the atrocities, and exceeded it in the extent of its desolation. Eleven millions of men, women, and children have… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
A first attempt to recover the right of self government may fail, so may a second, a third, etc. But as a younger and more… — Thomas Jefferson
How beautiful she is, Our Lady of compassion! How dear! How utterly unselfish! How filled with joy for Him - and us - in the… — Alphonsus Liguori
To engage human energy, human skill, and human talent in the service of peace, for the alternative is unthinkable - war, destruction, and desolation; and… — Albert Lutuli
And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing the desolation and… — Gordon Parks
Stand in despair anywhere old-growth forest has been clear-felled. All life has been replaced by blackened, poisoned desolation. Animals and birds have either fled or… — Peter Cundall
I hope we shall prove how much happier for man the Quaker policy is, and that the life of the feeder is better than that… — Thomas Jefferson
When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of solitude it has been; the masoned, walled-town of a Captain's exclusiveness, which admits… — Herman Melville
North was only a direction indicated by a compass--if a man had one, that is, for otherwise there was no north or south or east… — Shelby Foote
There is no hour that has not its births of gladness and despair, no morning brightness that does not bring new sickness to desolation as… — George Eliot
Civilizations come and go; they conquer the earth and crumble into dust; but faith survives every desolation. — Will Durant
I confess, without shame, that I am sick and tired of fighting â€” its glory is all moonshine; even success the most brilliant is over… — William Tecumseh Sherman
I sat in my desolation Withdrawn from all around, Feeling my life was a ruin, a failure. I was empty inside with the utter collapse… — Marjorie Pizer
We stand todaybefore the awful proposition: either the triumph of imperialism and the destruction of all culture, and, as in ancient Rome, depopulation, desolation, degeneration,… — Rosa Luxemburg
I stand before the Church this day and raise the warning voice. ... It is a voice calling upon the Lords people to prepare for… — Bruce R. McConkie
The great danger in today's world, pervaded as it is by consumerism, is the desolation and anguish born of a complacent yet covetous heart, the… — Pope Francis

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