Quotes about Destruction

When we become proud, we operate outside the grace God only gives to the humble. Humility preserves us; pride destroys us.

It is Satan's desire to destroy the world. God's intent is not to destroy the world but to deliver it from destruction. His plan is to redeem this fallen world, which he designed for greatness.

God promises something that has never yet been true of the earthly Jerusalem: "I will make peace your governor and righteousness your ruler. No longer will violence be heard in your land, nor ruin or destruction within your borders, but you will call your walls Salvation and your gates Praise" (vv. 17-18).

Seeking new sensations while violating the sacred first desecrates the self and finally destroys the sensation.

People living in the vanity of their own mind not only destroy themselves, but far too often, they bring destruction to others around them.

Indeed, by the time of the Temple destruction, which set in motion the separation of "the Jews" from "Christians," Paul was dead. That is why it is absurd to imagine that he himself caused the separation. Any imagined echo in his multifaceted writing of a distinction between "the Church" and "the Synagogue" resounds anachronistically from a future that did not yet exist—a fully ruptured Israel of which Paul knew nothing.

One of the consequences of covetousness is that it destroys the capacity to discern sufficiency. It distorts our thinking to the point where: Enough is never enough.

Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction.

Pride goes before destruction.

We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.

Man has no choice but to love. For when he does not, he finds his alternatives lie in loneliness, destruction and despair.

There can be no profit in the making or selling of things to be destroyed in war. Men may think that they have such profit, but in the end the profit will turn out to be a loss.