Quotes about Cruel
The wicked have weakness other than their willingness to kill and maim. Even the bleakest, cruelest soul can have its tender spots. Even the harshest desert has its pools, its shady trees and gentle streams.
- Paul Hoffman
Moses relayed this message to the Israelites, but on account of their broken spirit and cruel bondage, they did not listen to him.
- Exodus 6:9
lest you concede your vigor to others, and your years to one who is cruel;
- Proverbs 5:9
For surely no man knows his time: Like fish caught in a cruel net or birds trapped in a snare, so men are ensnared in an evil time that suddenly falls upon them.
- Ecclesiastes 9:12
They are senseless, faithless, heartless, merciless.
- Romans 1:31
unloving, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, without love of good,
- 2 Timothy 3:3
No one can rationally believe doing God's will guarantees one will, for example, never develop cancer or die in an earthquake. If that were the case, we would have to draw the irrational and cruel conclusion that anyone who dies prematurely was being punished by God—or the equally irrational conclusion that all those who live long and healthy lives have lived God-centered lives.
- Dennis Prager
Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible7 is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon, than the Word of God.
- Thomas Paine
He had the intellectual capacity of a louse, but shone in cooking up new ways to be cruel.
- Isabel Allende
I'd also gone through an entire year of celibacy based on my feeling that lust was the direct cause of birth which was the direct cause of suffering and death and I had really no lie come to a point where I regarded lust as offensive and even cruel. "Pretty girls make graves
- Jack Kerouac
It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.
- Thomas Paine
It is because I recognize the brutality with which my own multi-branched ancestors have been treated that I can identify the despicable, lawless, cruel, and sadistic behavior that has characterized Israel's attempts to erase a people, the Palestinians, from their own land.
- Alice Walker