Armor Quote by Edgar Lee Masters

“His was the kind of beauty for which you would pay the price of a lifetime of sorrow and all the varieties of rage.…

— Charles Baxter

“The depression of Job aroused sympathy from his friends but not compassion or faith; when he opened his mouth in bitterness, he opened himself…

— J. Chace Gordon

“He was like some tragic figure in Greek mythology whose offenses against the gods had caused them to design for him this exquisite torture:…

— Michael Lewis

He was resentful against all those in authority over him, and this, combined with a lazy indifference toward his work, exasperated every master in…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as evil, at once both…

— Saint Augustine

“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

“Unfortunately, we forget the cruel details of the agonizing sacrifice God made on our behalf. Familiarity breeds complacency. Even before his crucifixion, the Son…

— Rick Warren

He who does not see the angels and devils in the beauty and malice of life will be far removed from knowledge, and his…

— Anonymous

“The ruthlessness of the godly invalidated their claims of virtue.”

— Salman Rushdie

“[T]hat his cheating and his bitterness and his cruelty were the revolt of his will ... against a deep-rooted instinct of holiness, against a…

— Somerset Maugham Blanchet

The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving…

— Richard Dawkins

What does God think of spurious beauty, rejecting utterly as He does all falsehood?

— Clement of Alexandria