Christianity Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

Christianity gave Eros poison to drink: he did not die of it but degenerated - into vice.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Malice drinketh up the greater part of its own poison.

— Socrates

His foodWas glory, which was poison to his mindAnd peril to his body.

— Henry Taylor

Oh, mercy. If it catches you in the wrong frame of mind, the King James Bible can make you want to drink poison in…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Malice drinks one-half of its own poison.

— Seneca the Elder

But virtue too, as well as vice, is clad in flesh and blood.

— Edmund Waller

If any suffering was fruitless it was the agony of a hangover; what he suffered now could not expiate suffering of any other kind.

— Kenzaburo Oe

The ancient God created the old man, capable of erring - thus he erred himself.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

You can't deny Eros. Eros wills trike, like lightning. Our human defenses are frail, ludicrous. Like plasterboard houses in a hurricane. Your triumph is…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit. – Ephesians 5:18”

— Robert J. Morgan

Eros is very close to death. And both things, in a way, balance each other.

— Isabel Allende

“If thou readest the Scripture," said the Jewess, "and the lives of the saints, only to justify thine own license and profligacy, thy crime…

— Walter Scott