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In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died -- an entire town destroyed. --on a Kansas tornado that killed 12 people
- Barack Obama
Here, if any terrorists came flying over, they'd look down on trashed-out mine craters and blown-up mountains and say, "Keep going. This place already got taken out." It was hard to see how September 11 was my fight. As far as doing good for my fellow man, my better option was football.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Maybe every time an intelligent species grew advanced enough to invent a global computer network, they would then develop some form of social media, which would immediately fill these beings with such an intense hatred for one another that they ended up wiping themselves out within four or five decades.
- Ernest Cline
Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red nightfall!
- Ernest Cline
But these were real aliens we were fighting—sentient beings with highly advanced technology, intent on destroying us. And we were outnumbered thousands to one. We should've been dead a hundred times already. Were humans really just better at war than they were, or all this time, had the aliens been throwing the game?
- Ernest Cline
Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.
- Euripides
Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes angry.
- Euripides
Of all evils, indeed, famine is the worst, and it destroys nothing so effectively as shame. For that which under other circumstances is worthy of respect, in the midst of famine is despised. Thus women snatched the food from the very mouths of their husbands and children, from their fathers, and what was most pitiable of all, mothers from their babes. And while their dearest ones were wasting away in their arms, they were not ashamed to take away from them the last drops that supported life.
- Eusebius of Caesarea
The enemy is empowered by human agreement. To agree with anything he says gives him a place to kill, steal, and destroy. We fuel the cloud of oppression by agreeing with our enemy. Praise, with rejoicing, cancels that agreement.
- Bill Johnson
The key to either great purpose or great destruction lies in where we choose to sustain our focus. Knowing
- Bill Johnson
Build your nest in no tree here...for the Lord of the forest has condemned the whole woods to be demolished.
- Samuel Rutherford
People destroy what they love.
- Paulo Coelho