Quotes about Ruin

Pride goes before destruction.

The Devil often transforms himself into an angel to tempt men, some for their instruction, some for their ruin.

The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.

Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.

Any manipulation of the Scriptures to make them speak peace to the natural man is evil and can only lead to ruin.

Mr. Stanley has done his part with untiring energy; good judgment in the teeth of very serious obstacles. His helpmates turned out depraved blackguards, who, by their excesses at Zanzibar and elsewhere, had ruined their constitutions, and prepared their systems to be fit provender for the grave. They had used up their strength by wickedness, and were of next to no service, but rather downdrafts and unbearable drags to progress.

The devil tempts that he may ruin; God tests that he may crown.

Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.