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When the family collapses, it is the children that are usually damaged. When it happens on a massive scale, the community itself is crippled.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
Where are the unwise, who are not only impatient but plot revenge day and night? But why? Because they do not see how great is the damage of those who have not kept the law of the Lord, therefore they have no sympathy with them but also themselves depart from the law of God through anger and impatience.
- Martin Luther
It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.
- Anonymous
Part of the problem about authenticity is that virtues aren't the only things that are habit forming: the more someone behaves in a way that is damaging to self or to others, the more "natural" it will both seem and actually be. Spontaneity, left to itself, can begin by excusing bad behavior and end by congratulating vice.
- NT Wright
Bad temper is bad temper even in the apparent privacy of your own hard drive, and harsh and unjust words, when released into the wild, rampage around and do real damage. And as for the practice of saying mean and untrue things while hiding behind a pseudonym—well, if I get a letter like that it goes straight in the bin. But
- NT Wright
Christians have done far more damage to the church of Jesus Christ than any sinners outside the church could inflict.
- Nancy Leigh DeMoss
The world you live in is a lot like that broken-down house. Every single room has been dirtied and damaged by sin. Not one part of it shines with anything like the pure glory that was so evident when it was first made. Sin has left this world in a sorry condition. You see it everywhere you look.
- Paul David Tripp
If a fire breaks out and spreads to thornbushes so that it consumes stacked or standing grain, or the whole field, the one who started the fire must make full restitution.
- Exodus 22:6
Let every priest receive it from his constituency, and let it be used to repair any damage found in the temple.”
- 2 Kings 12:5
By the twenty-third year of the reign of Joash, however, the priests had not yet repaired the damage to the temple.
- 2 Kings 12:6
So King Joash called Jehoiada and the other priests and said, “Why have you not repaired the damage to the temple? Now, therefore, take no more money from your constituency, but hand it over for the repair of the temple.”
- 2 Kings 12:7
and smashing all the carvings with hatchets and picks.
- Psalm 74:6