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Quotes About Hostile

The sinful mind is hostile to God. It does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so" (Romans 8:7). If
~ Unknown
If, as Paul says, "the church of the living God [is] the pillar and foundation of the truth" (1 Timothy 3:15), then no standard of truth exists outside of Christianity, and it is our responsibility to be "the pillar and foundation of the truth" in a society that is hostile to the truth of God.
~ Unknown
Because in a time of financial crisis like the present, money is what ammunition is to a soldier in a hostile country - don't let's waste our powder.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
In the late 1950s Leslie Fiedler observed that the Jewish-American novelist had internalized the stereotype of the Jew in American literature. When he sat down to write, he had trouble shaking off the hostile or sentimental images that appeared regularly in the work of gentile writers. It is impossible to overestimate the value of such an insight.
~ Vivian Gornick
Suspense-is Hostiler than Death-Death- tho soever Broad, Is just Death, and cannot increase- Suspense-does not conclude-.
~ Emily Dickinson
That, at least, is the vision of the church in the New Testament: a colony of heaven in a hostile world. Dwight L. Moody said, "Of one hundred men, one will read the Bible; the ninety-nine will read the Christian.
~ Philip Yancey
Rather, God has commissioned us as agents of intervention in the midst of a hostile and broken world.
~ Philip Yancey
Christian myth, reveals the truth that the Christian was (and is) still like his forefathers a mortal hemmed into a hostile world.
~ Philip Zaleski
The United States is a giant island of freedom, achievement, wealth, and prosperity in a world hostile to our values.
~ Phyllis Schlafly
He glared at me. His glare could melt a polar bear's testicles.
~ Dean Koontz
What a profoundly bleak and inhospitable cosmos you inhabit, colonel-commissar. No wonder you fight so much.
~ Dan Abnett
Why should Iran have a deterrent strategy? Well, it's surrounded by hostile enemies. Both of its borders have been under occupation by a hostile superpower, the United States, which is constantly violating the U.N. charter by leaving open what they call the saying, 'all options are open' - meaning the threat of war.
~ Noam Chomsky
The gulf between Virginia and Maryland isn't only a function of geography. It's also sociological. Indeed, it's probably not much of an exaggeration to say that Maryland suburbanites and Virginia suburbanites constitute two mutually hostile tribes.
~ Timothy Noah
The "voice" may be described as the language of an insidious self-destructive process existing, to varying degrees, in every person. The voice represents an external point of view toward oneself initially derived from the parents' suppressed hostile feelings toward the child.
~ John Bradshaw
we are fragile creatures surrounded by a world of hostile facts. Facts threaten our happiness and security. The deeper we delve into the nature of things, the looser our structure may seem to become.
~ Don DeLillo
Were we a fragile unit surrounded by hostile facts? Would I promote ignorance, prejudice and superstition to protect my family from the world?
~ Don DeLillo
We are fragile creatures surrounded by a world of hostile facts. Facts threaten our happiness and security. The deeper we delve into things, the looser our structure may seem to become.
~ Unknown
I wondered if when we take Christian theology out of the context of its narrative, when we ignore the poetry in which it is presented, when we turn it into formulas to help us achieve the American dream, we lose its meaning entirely, and the ideas become fodder for the head but have no impact on the way we live our lives or think about God. This is, perhaps, why people are so hostile toward religion.
~ Donald Miller
I was thinking of starting at the old base in the first film or skipping over that and starting at a new base. We could start on the Ice Planet, which would be striking. We've never been there before, an underground installation in a giant snow bank. Very hostile, with wind blowing around and the cold. They're saying, 'We've got to get rid of the Emperor,' which we never said in the other film.
~ J.W. Rinzler
I can't understand why the Democratic parties seem so hostile to economic growth and business.
~ Jack Kemp
The bayou certainly has a wild beauty of its own, although it is undoubtedly hostile to man," Richard Duvall mused. "But then, many things that are quite beautiful are hostile to man." "Like women?" Shiloh suggested.
~ Unknown
Hosiah Lister, now dead, rec'd his freedom." Consider, then, the full measure of my sadness, reading this inscription; not merely for Hosiah Lister, but for all of us, consider the dear cost of liberty in a world so hostile, so teeming with enemies and opportunists, that one could not become free without casting aside all casualty, all choice, all will, all identity; finding freedom only in the spacious blankness of unbeing, the wide plains of nonentity, infinite and still.
~ Unknown
the eight warrior cops and their chief are terminated before the civil trial, they would likely become hostile witnesses against the City.
~ John Grisham
The two old secretaries conversed in the manner of hostile but toothless male dogs.
~ John Irving