Quotes about Curse

Although most of us have affirmed that God is the Creator of all things, it is quite easy to worship him as Creator on Sunday and curse his work during the week. We do this when we are dissatisfied with the way God has made the people we relate to every day. When we fail to worship God as Creator in our relationships, we try to ascend to his throne and do all we can to recreate others in our own image. This always leads to frustration and failure.

Great power requires great character if it is to be a blessing and not a curse, and that character is something we only grow toward.

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.

Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor.

The earth was cursed for Adam's sake. Work is our blessing, not our doom. God has a work to do, and so should we.

She'd once admitted during confession that she felt doomed to bear only sons, like a curse from the Devil. In penitence she was ordered to recite a rosary every day for two years straight and to make a sizable donation to the church renovation fund. Her husband forbade her from returning to confession.

God loves us; the devil hates us. God wants us to have a fulness of joy as He has. The devil wants us to be miserable as he is. God gives us commandments to bless us. The devil would have us break these commandments to curse us.

People were suddenly subject to the curse, which caused them to perform for identity instead of operating out of their identity. This has led to all sorts of perversions - people working for love instead of from love, for instance, and men and women measuring their relationship with God by their disciplines instead of by their passion.

Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!

Dramatic tension is the real curse of the novel, because it transforms everything, even the most beautiful pages, even the most surprising scenes and observations merely into steps leading to the final resolution, in which the meaning of everything that preceded is concentrated.

What is best let alone, that accursed thing is not always what least allures.

Science! Curse thee, thou vain toy!