Quotes about Awful
May God stop the preachers with moral measuring rods. Down with them! We need broken-hearted preachers with an awful conviction of sin, preachers who cry, "My God! My God! Against Thee, Thee only have I sinned!
- Oswald Chambers
How awful that day will be! None will be like it! It is the time of Jacob’s distress, but he will be saved out of it.
- Jeremiah 30:7
When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside which is like the cold of space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.
- Hilaire Belloc
The Vatican is like a huge kind of magician's club. The more you look into it the more awful it becomes. And they're laughing at us. That's when I get angry.
- Peter Mullan
God is an essence that we know nothing of. Until this awful blasphemy is got rid of, there never will be any liberal science in the world.
- John Adams
Science never cheered up anyone. The truth about the human situation is just too awful.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
You can justify your refusal to come to God because of scandals. So did the soldiers. It was an awful scandal that Christ the Son of God should swing impotent from a peg.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
I smiled back at her. I thought such awful thoughts that I cannot even say them out loud because they would make Jesus want to drink gin straight out of the cat dish.
- Anne Lamott
Abash'd the Devil stood, and felt how awful goodness is, and saw virtue in her shape how lovely.
- John Milton
Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss
- John Milton
Then I lifted up my hands—stood just so a moment—then I said, with the most awful solemnity: "Let the enchantment dissolve and pass harmless away!
- Mark Twain
I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
- Samuel Beckett