Quotes About Wretched

you do not come to Jesus Christ for salvation, but you lash out against him in desperate rebellion. Look how far humanity has fallen, that it would produce a piece of garbage like you! But there is hope in Jesus. Come to him now. Call upon him in repentance, and he will save your foolish and wretched soul.

I have known sorrow and learned to aid the wretched.

Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping.

how often I longed to lovingly administer release! ... to have the courage and the right, after the soul is fled, to stop the poor wretched machine, that exists only to suffer and cause suffering.

Everybody says / time heals everything. / But what of the wretched hollow? / The endless in between?

Pierre Patenaude's small world, where wretched actions could be justified, and others blamed.

Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

In fact, the most paradoxical aspect of neurotic shame is that it is the core motivator of the superachieved and the underachieved, the star and the scapegoat, the righteous and the wretched, the powerful and the pathetic.

You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy,'" I quoted. "Which Holmes story is that from?" the chief asked. "I don't recognize the reference." "It's from Star Wars

Men are so isolated, prisoners of their own wretched selves, that they can be unbelievably sociable.

Sarah turned on her, and shook her head. You may keep them. And if it is possible with so small a sum of money, I suggest you purchase some instrument of torture. I am sure Mrs. Fairly will be pleased to help you use it upon all those wretched enough to come under your power.

Those who plead for the lives of the unborn should consider the lives of the living. ...the unborn are not as wretched or as in need of our assistance as the born! Please take pity on the born!

the wretched practices of the Republic endured: corruption, decadence, the lust for prestige.

Faith is the consolation of the wretched and the terror of the happy.

Whilst wretched Man is still in Arms for fear For fear he armes, and is of Armes afraid.

Be sure that if you are unhappily celebrated for either beauty, wit, intellect, or all three together, half society wishes you dead already, and the other half tries to make you as wretched as possible while you are alive.

A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burdened with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain.

If He left me alone for one moment, I would be the most wretched person alive. Yet I do not know how He could possibly leave me alone. Faith gives me a strong conviction, stronger than my senses ever could, that He never forsakes us, unless we first forsake Him. Let us fear to leave Him. Let us be always with Him. Let us live and die in His presence.

And had it not been for our prayer and word, Germany would doubtless be in a different condition; and if she had been without the word which we teach and without our prayers, conditions in Germany would be in a most wretched plight.

Therefore the man whom the prophet here calls blessed is unanimously declared by the world to be the most wretched of all, as Isaiah looked upon Christ, the Head and Model of the blessed, whom he calls the lowest of all (Is. 53:3).

All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us.

The impious Soul screams: I burn; I am ablaze; I know not what to cry or do; wretched me, I am devoured by all the ills that compass me about; alack, poor me, I neither see nor hear! This is the Soul's chastisement of itself. For the Mind of the man imposes these on the Soul.

Friendship's the privilege of private men for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.