Abomination Quote by Glen Duncan

Whenever I allow anything but tenderness and compassion to dictate my response to life--be it self-righteous anger, moralizing, defensiveness, the pressing need to change…

— Brennan Manning

“But it's a curse, a condemnation, like an act of provocation, to have been aroused from not being, to have been conjured up from…

— Paul Harding

“Hatred the only moving force, a petulant unhappy striving - childhood the only happiness, and that unknowing; then the continual battle that cannot ever…

— Patrick O'Brian

'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed, When not to be, receives reproach of being, And the just pleasure lost, which is so…

— William Shakespeare

... Grief is selfish. It is indulged in for self-gratification, not for love. Cosmic man knows the beauty and unreality of death. Sympathy for…

— Walter Russell

“it’s not enough for Christians merely to recognize that the world isn’t what it ought to be and that people are suffering in ways…

— Ed Stetzer

Righteous indignation: your own wrath as opposed to the shocking bad temper of others

— Elbert Hubbard

“This is somewhat of the word which he now speaks unto you: Why will ye die? why will ye perish? why will ye not…

— Wayne A. Grudem

A soul so pitiably forlorn, If such do on this earth abide, May season apathy with scorn, May turn indifference to pride; And still…

— William Wordsworth

“And this, too, shall pass away.' How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!”

— Abraham Lincoln

At a period when Literature was wont to attribute the grief of living exclusively to the mischances of disappointed love or the jealousy of…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

“God's love may take the form of wrath. It can show itself to us as a calamity. This is the difficult lesson its taken…

— Ian McEwan