Quotes About Tragedy

May God bless those who died and bless their families. With regards, George Bush.

Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.

The sovereignty of God is the only foundation for worship in the midst of tragedy.

How did [the Holocaust] happen? Because God allowed it to happen. Why did it happen? Because God said, 'My top priority for the Jewish people is to get them to come back to the land of Israel.'

Faith in God offers no insurance against tragedy.

My God. What's happened?

Around the hero everything turns into a tragedy, around the demigod, a satyr-play, and around God--what? perhaps a "world"?

God, who neither causes nor prevents tragedies, helps by inspiring people to help.

A god implants in mortal guilt whenever he wants utterly to confound a house.

What's taken God 200 years to create was wiped out in a couple of days by what was apparently an arsonist, And it just shows you what a sick world we live in nowadays.

The truth is that God is to be found in all things - even and most especially in the painful, tragic and unpleasant things.

For the Christian, every tragedy is ultimately a blessing, or God is a liar.

The tomb of the Saviour was a narrow and empty vault, precious only for its memories of the supreme tragedy of the centuries, but the new continent was to be the home and temple of the living God.

Why do people hate God?... One, they hate the moral standard. Two, they hate the way he's transforming the world even in the midst of suffering and tragedy.

For me, it is a deep personal tragedy. I know that the world shares the sorrow that Mrs. Kennedy and her family bear. I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's.

Jesus was a suicide, if you ask me.

There is a house in New Orleans they call the Rising Sun, and it's been the ruin of many a poor boy and God I know I'm one.

I don't doubt that God can bring good out of tragedies, but the Bible is clear that God is not the author of evil!

If indeed the death of a child is part of a larger plan, you wonder if God ever considered a smaller plan.

Oh God." said Magnus, "they're dead. They're all dead!

Whenever there is a catastrophe, some religious people inevitably ask, 'Why didn't God do something? Where was God when all those people died?'

If you consider, for example, that democracy is much like a religion then 9/11 is akin to finding the body of God.

God's greatest tragedy is the creation of mankind.

I remember, growing up, if something big - God forbid - happened, the first jokes you heard on the subject came out of Jersey.