“It is due to neither impotence nor ignorance on God’s part that evils occur in the world, but it is owing to the order of his wisdom and to the greatness of his goodness, whence come the many and divers grades of goodness in things, many of which would be lacking were he to allow no evil to exist. Thus there would be no good of patience without the evil of persecution, nor the good of the preservation of its life in a lion, without the evil of the destruction of the animals on which it lives.” IfsWorldWould BeOrderEvilAnimalGreatnessIgnoranceGoodnessWeaknessDestructionAccountsDuesGradesLionsDiverseLackingPreservationPersecutionPreservation Of Life Author:Thomas Aquinas
“Were it not for the mind change of Sai devotees the world would already have fallen into complete chaos. The deterioration of mind and man has been very rapid and abrupt, even precipitous during the last fifteen years. That the world is not in total destruction is due to the change of mind of Sai devotees and to Sai's grace.” MenWorldYearsMindHas BeensLastsGraceDestructionChaosDuesFallenFifteenRapidsFifteen YearsDevoteeDeteriorationMind Changing Author:Sathya Sai Baba
“I trust in due time to lay the perfidy, meanness, and wickedness of [Henry] Clay naked before the American people. I have lately got an intimation of some of his secret movements, which, if I can reach with positive and responsible proof, I will wield to his political, and perhaps his actual, destruction.” PeopleIfsI CanPoliticalSecretMovementDestructionResponsibleLaysDuesProofNakedWickednessClayMeannessDue TimePerfidy Author:Andrew Jackson
“I personally think that today, Iraq without Saddam Hussein is a truly better Iraq than with Saddam Hussein. But, naturally, I also feel uncomfortable due to the fact that we were misled with the information on weapons of mass destruction.” ThinkingFeelsFactsTodayInformationWeaponsMassDestructionIraqDuesUncomfortableSaddamHusseinWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionMisled Author:Aleksander Kwasniewski
“I am sure that if every leader who goes into battle will promise himself that he will come out either a conqueror or a corpse, he is sure to win. There is no doubt of that. Defeat is not due to losses but to the destruction of the Soul of the leaders-the 'live to fight another day' doctrine.” IfsSoulFightingWinningLossLeaderDoubtPromiseBattleDestructionDefeatDuesDoctrineNo DoubtCorpsesConquerorAnother Day Author:George S. Patton
“That the reason why they are not fallen already and do not fall now is only that God's appointed time is not come. For it is said, that when that due time, or appointed time comes, their foot shall slide. Then they shall be left to fall, as they are inclined by their own weight. God will not hold them up in these slippery places any longer, but will let them go; and then, at that very instant, they shall fall into destruction; as he that stands on such slippery declining ground, on the edge of a pit, he cannot stand alone, when he is let go he immediately falls and is lost.” SaidReasonFallLostLeftFeetLetting GoDestructionWeightEdgesDuesGods WillReason WhyFallenInstantPitsSlidesStand AloneSlipperyDue Time Book:Jonathan Edwards in the Pulpit: Famous Sermons Source: Jonathan Edwards in the Pulpit: Famous Sermons
“The peoples of many countries are being taxed to the point of poverty and starvation in order to enable Governments to engage in a mad race in armament which, if permitted to continue, may well result in war. This grave menace to the peace of the world is due in no small measure to the uncontrolled activities of the manufacturers and merchants of engines of destruction, and it it must be met by the concerted actions of the peoples of all Nations.” WorldCountryGovernmentActionNationsRacePovertyMetsActivityDestructionMadDuesGravesEnginesStarvationMerchantsMenaceArmament Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt