Quotes about Ruined
In my opinion the misappropriation of the longing for God has caused a lot of people a great deal of pain. In fact, I wondered if some of my early mistakes in relationships weren't partly because I sought to find resolution for the longing through a woman, a burden no romantic partner should have to bear. How many relationships have been ruined by two people attempting to squeeze the Jesus out of each other?
- Donald Miller
Never does a person see any beauty in Christ as a Savior, until they discover that they are a lost and ruined sinner.
- JC Ryle
I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left the forge, so, the evening mists were rising now, and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw no shadow of another parting from her.
- Charles Dickens
A temple was never perfectly a temple, till it was ruined and mixed up with the winds and the sky and the herbs.
- DH Lawrence
In it she told me, "Thanks a lot! I'm ruined - gloriously ruined." I nodded with sudden understanding. "that's it - that describes what has happened to me." I was ruined for life as I had known it before, but gloriously ruined!
- Kay Warren
We cannot be satisfied with illustrative sermons, great music, and friendly services. We have been called to see the powers of darkness destroyed and our ruined cities restored.
- Kris Vallotton
Every divorce represents a broken dream, a shattered hope, a ruined expectation.
- Billy Graham
You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed with sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around cafes.
- Ernest Hemingway
ANIENTED (A'NIENTED) adj.[anneantir, Fr.]Frustrated; brought to nothing.
- Samuel Johnson
We see it was the Lord's purpose to deliver nothing in his sacred oracles which we might not learn for edification. Therefore, instead of dwelling on superfluous matters, let it be sufficient for us briefly to hold, with regard to the nature of devils, that at their first creation they were the angels of God, but by revolting they both ruined themselves, and became the instruments of perdition to others.
- John Calvin
Religion is a very scary thing, because a pastor is in a position of power. And if you use that power badly, you ruin people's lives, and you ruin your own life.
- Eugene Peterson
Grace is God satisfying our souls with His Son so that we're ruined for anything else!
- Sam Storms