“When you want something, he entire universe conspires to help you achieve it.”
Source: The Alchemist
“It doesn't matter what you do. You. Will. Lose.”
“It's a classic love story. I hit on him at a party, he asked me out, then we fought an epic magical battle between good and evil side by side, and now we need a vacation.”
Source: The Red Scrolls of Magic
“Evil magic could flow through her like a river in full flood. Fortunately for the rest of us, there's a lot of Agnes in the way. Whether that makes her wicked, I'll leave to philosopher's.”
Source: Nettle & Bone
“I don't care. Honestly, truly I don't. If she's sick of broken or Frankenstein's monster, it doesn't matter. We're all sick. We're all broken. We still have a choice.”
Source: The Reckoning of Noah Shaw
“I allow that it is easier to touch the body of a saint, or to be magnetised, than to restrain our appetites or govern our passions; but health of body or mind can only be recovered by these means, or we make the Supreme Judge partial and revengeful.
Is he a man that he should change, or punish out of resentment?
He - the common father, wounds but to heal, says reason, and our irregularities producing certain consequences, we are forcibly shewn the nature of vice; that thus learning to know good from evil, by experience, we may hate one and love the other, in proportion to the wisdom which we attain. The poison contains the antidote; and we either reform our evil habits and cease to sin against our own bodies, to use the forcible language of scripture, or a premature death, the punishment of sin, snaps the thread of life.”
Source: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
“Why do people do cruel things to one another? And why does God Permit it?”
Source: The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death in the Sixteenth Century
“The difference is not in what people suffer but in the way they suffer.”
Source: (City of God (Penguin Classics)) [By: Augustine, Saint] [Nov, 2003]
“Evil infects all of life on this fallen planet; only through death--Christ's death and our own--can we realize a resurrected state that restores us, uniting body and soul.”
Source: Undone: A Modern Rendering of John Donne's Devotions
“What is done “in God’s name” is as evil as it is vain”