Quote by Dorothy Dunnett

“He looked up to the gods but never accepted their eternal superiority. For better or worse, plotting their overthrow was the only aspiration that…

— Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

“So you made some bad choices. Some of God's best players were His imperfect, broken prodigals. In fact, iffy players are God's best picks.…

— Susan May Warren

“God has chosen to save the world through the cross, through the shameful and powerless death of the crucified Messiah. If that shocking event…

— Richard Hays

“While trying to play God, all else fails”

— D.L. Narrol

“For himself, he grew desperate; his sorrow was of the king that will not lament, he neither wept nor prayed - he cursed and…

— Emily Brontë

“How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will; Whose armor is his honest thought, And simple truth his only skill!…

— Sir Henry Wotton

“Our moments of insurmountable circumstances are actually invitations from the Lord to choose to praise Him.”

— Terry Law

“Suddenly he realised that he had lost also that burden of responsibility which made every action of his life a matter of urgent consequence.…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“relaxing his sentiment of pride, he addressed his supplications, not to God, but to man. God is always the last resource. Unfortunates, who ought…

— Alexandre Dumas

“He often makes prizes of humans who have given their lives for causes He thinks bad on the monstrously sophistical ground that the humans…

— C.S. Lewis

“Who?” “Schiller. A German dramatist of three centuries ago. In a play about Joan of Arc, he said, ‘Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend…

— Isaac Asimov

“Perhaps as he was lying awake then, his life may have passed before him--his early hopeful struggles, his manly successes and prosperity, his downfall…

— William Makepeace Thackeray