Quotes about Destruction
Again, if we have any anxiety about our own salvation, we ought to make no peace nor truce with him who is continually laying schemes for its destruction. But such is the character given to Satan in the third chapter of Genesis, where he is seen seducing man from his allegiance to God, that he may both deprive God of his due honour, and plunge man headlong in destruction.
- John Calvin
Rom. 7:10, that the law is turned into a source of ruin for us, not because it is evil but because we are wicked.
- John Calvin
All other things to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay...
- John Donne
Here we are, arguably the most intelligent being that's ever walked planet Earth, with this extraordinary brain ... and yet we're destroying the only home we have.
- Jane Goodall
A nation that destroys its own people is a nation without hope.
- Pope John Paul II
War is and always has been a brutal exercise that destroys lives, families and communities. It is never something for which we hope.
- Rick Warren
We're fighting against humanism, we're fighting against liberalism...we are fighting against all the systems of Satan that are destroying our nation today...our battle is with Satan himself.
- Jerry Falwell
As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man.
- St. John Chrysostom
In the Destroyer's steps there spring up bright creations that defy his power, and his dark path becomes a way of light to Heaven.
- Charles Dickens
A frivolous society can acquire significance through what its frivolity destroys.
- Edith Wharton
As long ago as Pythagoras, man was taught that all things were in a state of flux, without end as without beginning, and must we still, after more than two thousand years, pretend to regard the universe as some gigantic toy manufactured in six days by a Superhuman Artisan, who is presently to destroy it at his pleasure?
- Edith Wharton
Rage and phrenzy will pull down more in half an hour, than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in an hundred years.
- Edmund Burke