Vindictiveness In The Bible Quotes & Sayings

Maybe she had some sort of extraordinary quality, secret even to her. Maybe she did have the power to alter the things she'd always assumed she'd have to endure. — Anna North

I loved Charlotte Bronte when I was little, and I wanted to be Charlotte Bronte the way people want to be a princess. — Jamaica Kincaid

If these distracted times prove anything, they prove that the greatest illusion is reliance upon the security and permanence of material possessions. We must search for some other coin. And we will discover that the treasure-house of education has stood intact and unshaken in the storm. The man of cultivated life has founded his house upon a rock. You can never take away the magnificent mansion of his mind. — John Cudahy

This heart belongs to you alone. — Skillet

I really do feel like I'm in a generation where women are empowering and supporting each other. It's so amazing to feel a part of that. — Hailee Steinfeld

AUGUSTINE: People love truth when it shines on them and hate it when it rebukes them. For, — Cindy Crosby

You can see the same immorality or amorality in the Christian view of guilt and punishment. There are only two texts, both of them extreme and mutually contradictory. The Old Testament injunction is the one to exact an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth (it occurs in a passage of perfectly demented detail about the exact rules governing mutual ox-goring; you should look it up in its context (Exodus 21). The second is from the Gospels and says that only those without sin should cast the first stone. The first is a moral basis for capital punishment and other barbarities; the second is so relativistic and "nonjudgmental" that it would not allow the prosecution of Charles Manson. Our few notions of justice have had to evolve despite these absurd codes of ultra vindictiveness and ultracompassion. — Christopher Hitchens

Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon, than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness, that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it, as I detest everything that is cruel. — Thomas Paine

seems remarkable that I played in both, but I didn't think much of it at the time. These tournaments are acknowledged — Sachin Tendulkar

There are three dimensions of time, two of which contain happier days. — Robert Breault

Love couldn't be moved by circumstance, poor choices, or even blatant lies - skewed and damaged, yes, but the heart couldn't deny what it wanted most once the desire was planted. Whether in bliss or affliction, love owned you all the same. — Rachael Wade

I had a friend who introduced me to a meditation practice which involves a couple of half-hours a day of meditation, where essentially you try to achieve a stillness that allows you to just be there in the moment. — Kenneth Branagh

Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them. — Miguel De Unamuno

To me, politics is a pile of tricks. — Tracy Morgan

The idea that bigger haystacks have more needles in them is dumb on its face — Cory Doctorow