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Letter "S" » scourge
«The curiosity to know things has been given to man as a scourge.»
«Teenagers travel in droves, packs, swarms. To the librarian, they're a gaggle of geese. To the cook, they're a scourge of locusts. To department stores they're a big beautiful exaltation of larks. all lovely and loose and jingly.»
Author: Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
| About:
Travel
| Keywords:
cook, department, department store, Department Stores, exaltation, gaggle, geese, jingly, larks, librarian, librarians, packs, scourge, scourged, scourges, scourging, stores, swarm, swarming, swarms, teenagers, The Cook, The Larks, The Librarian
«Pray often; for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan»
«The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness. So the best way seems to be to scourge oneself with thin cords which hurt superficially, rather than to use some other means which might produce serious internal injury.»
Author: Saint Ignatius of Loyola
(Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
cords, in the flesh, penance, penetrate, safest, scourge, suitable, superficially
«I see / The lost are like this, and their scourge to be / As I am mine, their sweating selves; but worse.»
«Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell? / Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city: / That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.»
«Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.»
«War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.»
Author: Martin Luther
(Priest, Scholar)
| About:
War
| Keywords:
afflict, afflicting, destroys, families, Great Plague, Great War, humanity, plague, Plague The, plaguing, preferable, scourge, scourged, scourges, scourging, States, state of war, to it
«When my heart is cold and I cannot pray as I should I scourge myself with the thought of the impiety and ingratitude of my enemies, the Pope and his accomplices and vermin, and Zwingli, so that my heart swells with the righteous indignation and hatre»
Author: Martin Luther
(Priest, Scholar)
| Keywords:
accomplices, impieties, impiety, indignation, ingratitude, pope, scourge, scourged, scourges, scourging, swells, The Accomplice, the pope, vermin, Zwingli
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