Quotes about Destruction
Artistic temperament sometimes seems a battleground, a dark angel of destruction and a bright angel of creativity wrestling.
- Madeleine L'Engle
It is the nature of love to create. It is the nature of hate to destroy.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Very few of us understand Honorable Bird, except to acknowledge that without his power and grace nothing would be written, painted, or composed at all. To say anything beyond this about the creative process is like pulling all the petals off a flower in order to analyze it, and ending up having destroyed the flower.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Hate is like cancer, separate from the normal cells, devouring and not being nourished, annihilating itself along with everything it attacks.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Strength can always be used to destroy as well as create
- Madeleine L'Engle
All earthly cities are vulnerable. Men build them and men destroy them. At the same time there is a City of God which men did not build and cannot destroy and which is everlasting.
- Malcolm Muggeridge
If it is God who has been withholding His presence, exposing the sin, calling for its destruction and a return to obedience, surely we can count upon His grace to strengthen us for the life He asks of us. It is not a question of what you can do. It is a question of whether you will with your whole heart give God what is due Him and allow His will to be done in your life.
- Andrew Murray
In heaven and on earth, pride or self-exaltation is the very gateway to hell.
- Andrew Murray
Thus, I repeat, anti-Semitism and anti-Judaism are spiritually destructive and stupid. In the words of Pope Pius XI: "Spiritually, we are Semites." You cannot be a good Catholic until you've fallen in love with the religion and people of Israel. WALK
- Scott Hahn
One leak will sink a ship, and one sin will destroy a sinner.
- John Bunyan
The road of denial leads to the precipice of destruction.
- John Bunyan
it is important to mark this circumstance, that at the very time when the men of Sodom, having dismissed all fear of God, were indulging themselves, and were promising themselves impunity, however they might sin, God was taking counsel to destroy them, and was moved, by the tumultuous cry of their iniquities, to descend to earth, while they were buried in profound sleep.
- John Calvin