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Quotes About Disgrace

The disgrace of the church in the twentieth century is that more zeal is evident among Communists and cultists than among Christians.
~ William MacDonald
To know that God loves us in the state of grace or disgrace is the most powerful motivation to respond with the aid of grace to His loving call.
~ Michael Card
Before Jesus leads His disciples into suffering, humiliation, disgrace, and disdain, He summons them and shows Himself to them as the Lord in God's glory.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Sentiment is a disgrace, instead of an ornament, unless it lead us to good actions.
~ Ann Radcliffe
At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.
~ F. L. Lucas
My dear Smollett ... disgraces his talent by writing those stupid romances called history.
~ Mary Wortley Montagu
Knowing honor, but clinging to disgrace, you become the valley of the world.
~ Laozi
For peace, with justice and honor, is the fairest and most profitable of possessions, but with disgrace and shameful cowardice, it is the most infamous and harmful of all.
~ Polybius
I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace.
~ Pierre Corneille
To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.
~ David Hare
The coming of honor or disgrace must be a reflection of one's inner power.
~ Xunzi
A person dishonored is worst than dead.
~ Miguel de Cervantes
In Washington it is an honor to be disgraced. you have to have been somebody to fall.
~ Meg Greenfield
The wish to hear such baseness is degrading.
~ Dante Alighieri, Inferno
To not apologize for the behavior of the players to another manager is unthinkable. It's a disgrace, but I don't expect Wenger to ever apologize...he's that type of person.
~ Alex Ferguson
The disgrace of one's people brings sorrow to the Nobel minded.
~ Chanakya
When the GRACE of God is empty in a man's life then the DISGRACE of the devil comes in.
~ Olasunkanmi Ayanmo
I believe that many of the boys have a lurking fear that their parents will disgrace them in some fashion.
~ Edmund Crispin
Here are some key words to go along with shame: Inferior Alienated Embarrassed Minority Ridiculed Weak Powerless Failure Different Insulted Rejected Inadequate Humiliated Ignored Loser
~ Edward T. Welch
These words point in the right direction, but some of them, such as embarrassed, insulted, different, and ignored, can fade with time. Real shame requires more intensity. That's why the language of this next list may make you want to turn away, but it's much closer to shame. Unclean Dishonored Filthy Shunned Disgusting Defiled Outcast Unlovable Discarded Repulsive Disgraced Worthless Loathed Scorned Vile
~ Edward T. Welch
If we {Federalists] must have an enemy at the head of government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures. Under Adams as under Jefferson , the government shall sink. The party in the hands of whose chief it shall sink will sink with it—and the advantage will be all on the side of his adversaries.
~ Alexander Hamilton
Skurken är naturligtvis mer syndig, men dessa hedervärda utan hederskänsla är, om ni så vill, värda ett större förakt.
~ Alfred Doblin
Football is an angry game, played with punishing violence," he writes. "People get destroyed on the field, lives end. It makes sense that its first star was someone who'd already lost everything, a ruined man, ill-treated, stripped to his essential qualities: speed, strength, power. Jim Thorpe is the spirit of the game. Every NFL hit still carries the fury of the disgraced Indian, prowling the field, seeking justice.
~ Rich Cohen
What a disgrace! They were afraid...ashamed...they chose to conceal it...they buried the roots of a Great Civilization...they lacked the courage to go further...and turned their backs on what science had to offer them...and tried to seal away forever the hole they had torn open with their own hands.
~ Katsuhiro Otomo