"We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction."

-- Aesop

#Mean Quotes #Giving Quotes #Enemy Quotes

“The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.”

Source : Speech at County Meeting of Buckinghamshire, 1784
“It gives me such hope that each one of us can contribute to make this world a better place.”

Source : Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.”
“If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.”
“We may see how miraculously God defends our people, and makes us hope that, in spite of the malice of our enemies, He will bring our cause to a good and happy end, to the advancement of His glory and the deliverance of so many Christians from unjust oppression.”

Source : "William the Silent". Book by Frederic Harrison, p. 62, 1897.
“I've always known that sporting people frequently suffer from joint problems because of the repeated strain they put on their bodies to get to the top. But somehow I never thought it would happen to me.”
“A truth that is merely handed on, without being thought anew from its very foundations, has lost its vital power.”

Source : Hans Urs von Balthasar (1993). “Razing the Bastions: On the Church in this Age”, p.18, Ignatius Press
“The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.”

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