You said 'God is cruel' the way a person who's lived his whole life on Tahiti might say 'Snow is cold'. You knew, but you didn't understand." He stepped close to David and put his palms on the boy's cold cheeks. "Do you know how cruel your God can be, David. How fantastically cruel?
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But by-and-by wi... LEWIS J. BATES God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live. STEPHEN KING It's real difficult. You know how cruel little kids can be. JOSE VASQUEZ You know what editing can do. The editing on that show can be so cruel. JOANNE SCHEER Draco's like... snow," said Hermione quietly, her gaze absent and distracted. "It's cold and cruel t... BEX-CHAN He that is cruel to his own will not be cruel to others. VIKRANT PARSAI So who is cruel? You, cruel reader, you are. JOHNNY RICH Mort was already aware that love made you feel hot and cold and cruel and weak, but he hadn't realiz... TERRY PRATCHETT How can you know God if you don't seek out his voice, find it, and learn to follow the path he is le... PHIL MITCHELL I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out. BILL HICKS Life is glorious, but it can be counted on to be cruel. NOAH GORDON Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man. 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HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f... HARRY YOU Life may sometimes be cruel, it may harm you, may hurt your feelings. And in times of great sufferin... PEDRO Even in winter, the cold isn't always bitter, and not every day is cruel. JIM BUTCHER It is so easy to be hopeful in the daytime when you can see the things you wish on. But it was night... ZORA NEALE HURSTON I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out. BILL HICKS You’re one cruel bastard,” she managed to get out. He tsked with his tongue. “Every... DIANNA HARDY It’s weird like, you can see the cruelest part of the world. The cruelest part. But then on the ot... BRITNEY SPEARS When you are young, and beautiful, you can be very cruel. ROBERT GALBRAITH Ellen had said that her mother was afraid of the ocean, that it was too cold and too big. The sky wa... LOIS LOWRY That's the thing about suicide. Try as you might to remember how a person lived his life, you al... ANDERSON COOPER How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corre... DAVID NORRIS His eyes are covered by impermeable marble, a solidity that can never be breached. You think there i... HUBERT MARTIN you can get past a mistake, but it's much harder to get past being a cruel person. JENNIFER BROWN The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis. CRAIG GROESCHEL If you can't turn off your thoughts, who cares how soft your pillow is?" - David King ROBERT LIPARULO Man by violating his own feelings becomes cruel. And how deeply seated in the human heart is the inj... LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY You want war?? ... Out there you can find books, films about the war how brutal is it. If ... DEYTH BANGER You have no sense of what war is like. You have no idea what it means to see those you love fall. Yo... AMELIA ATWATER-RHODES It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God... THOMAS PAINE Times like these you wish you didn't manufacture such large pills to swallow...Because you become yo... DEDRICK D. L. PITTER If you are now facing difficulties in your life, don’t focus on them but rather focus on God becau... DRAGOS BRATASANU god, can you imagine getting married at nineteen?" miranda asked. "when i was nineteen i didnt even ... DIANNE SYLVAN Cruel, Cruel World, how are we letting it Dwell, Dwell... JAI SINGH This is a cruel thing to do because when someone knows your story they know you. And they can hurt y... ALLY CONDIE O how wonderful life is, how miraculous, God made this and God made that", "how do you know he doesn... JACK KEROUAC What have you done?' he said, his voice hollow and strained. He stepped back and put his fists to hi... CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Compassion is a lifetime business. You can't say something like, "I will have compassion on Monday, ... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR I'll tell you one thing, it's a cruel, cruel world. DANNY DEVITO God is always on time, it may not be the time you are expecting, but hes on time. Just like he said ... ARTHLENE LAUDAT LAWRENCE We're always taught that God wants us to always only say "I can't do this without You God" , "Whatev... C. JOYBELL C. Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel. KING SOLOMON Sometimes you must be cruel to be kind. ENGLISH PROVERB Time is cruel like life. It slows down so that you can truly experience the worst moments of it. Onl... J.A. REDMERSKI Self-revelation is a cruel process. The real picture, the real you never emerges. Looking for it is ... SHASHI DESHPANDE Self-revelation is a cruel process. The real picture, the real "you" never emerges. Looking for it i... SHASHI DESHPANDE No matter how cold you are or how hungry you are, you might be warm tomorrow. BEN SCHNETZER Laurel, David? Would you like to share the joke with the rest of the class?" he asked, one hand on h... APRILYNNE PIKE Do you really have any idea how important you are to me? Any concept at all of how much I love you?"... STEPHENIE MEYER Every day, you can see how confident David is, CHRIS PALMER God knows your value; He sees your potential. You may not understand everything you are going throug... JOEL OSTEEN If God 'foresaw' our acts, it would be very hard to understand how we could be free not to do them. ... C.S. LEWIS Myrnin, who hadn't said much, suddenly reached out and wrapped his arms around her. She ... RACHEL CAINE In a cruel land, you either learned to laugh at cruelty or spent your life weeping. ROBERT JORDAN God is unchanging in His love. He loves you. He has a plan for your life. Don't let the newspaper he... BILLY GRAHAM I feel like the only person in the world who sees David Beckham modelling his swimming pants on the ... TONY PARSONS You control your own destiny. Never let anyone put you in a box and say 'This is your space'; You ha... MICHELLE GEANEY It keeps on coming back to us - how cruel it was. GERT RAUL The Christian God is a being of terrific character - cruel, vindictive, capricious, and unjust THOMAS JEFFERSON God opened the door. Bruce got down on his knees and invited God into his life. You could just tell ... DALE HUDSON Life, that can shower you with so much slendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up. STEPHEN FRY Life, that can shower you with so much splendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up. STEPHEN FRY If God is good, then why did he create man, the most cruel thing known to date? PETER MIDTGARD But how,” said Charles, who was close to tears, “how can you possibly justify cold-blooded murde... DONNA TARTT It was a mistake," you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trustin... DAVID LEVITHAN So what if you’re right? So what if you’re wrong? In the end you might be surprised to fin... RICHELLE E. GOODRICH You understand Teacher, don't you, that when you have a mother who's an angel and a father who is a ... ASTRID LINDGREN Be cruel to me , cause I'm a fool for you. ALEX TURNER His remarks are un-Christian and a perversion of religion. Unlike Robertson, we don't see God as cru... ABRAHAM H. FOXMAN No, my dear, I'm not in love with you, no more than you are with me, and if I were, you would be the... MARGARET MITCHELL Now do you understand why it's so important for you to grasp your belovedness? God won't change the ... JONATHAN MARTIN How can you expect a man who's warm to understand a man who's cold? ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN ...I'm the last person to tell you that you need a guy to make you happy. But if you're not moving o... APRILYNNE PIKE The modeling world – and the world at large – is a pretty cruel place. It’s up to you to decid... ABBY ROSMARIN I once knew a man who was heir to the throne of a great kingdom, he lived as a ranger and fought his... C. JOYBELL C. God is the most beautiful, and beauty is the expression of God. If you can't appreciate beauty in th... AMIT RAY How do YOU know what God meant? Did he whisper into your ear? Did he put the knife in your heart? Di... CHRISTINA ENGELA Where have you buried your best days? Have you lived or not? Look, one says to oneself, look ho... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY How do you feel when you want to stand and you see yourself on the floor? Sometimes what God wi... PATIENCE JOHNSON You always have to remember your place. You can be close to the person, but you must know who you ar... VIKTOR SUKHODREV May God always shower His blessings on you; may He fill your life with hope and may He always guide ... LATIKA TEOTIA You cold?' He chafes my arms. I haven't been cold since I moved here. This is something else. 'No. B... SOPHIE JORDAN You know Carlos might have had a life-altering experience. He knows how close he came to being real ... CLIFF FLOYD No matter how bad you feel, God never sees you as a reckless person. He may see you as a sinner who ... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR When the whole world is against you and all you know seems lost. Know that God is right there standi... ANTHONY T. HINCKS Well, I never been to much school, you understand, but it seems to me that you're assuming something... JIM BUTCHER God works in mysterious, inefficient, and breathtakingly cruel ways. PENN JILLETTE When you feel life is getting too cruel and insensitive…Look for a newspaper or poor streets…... KRITIKA SHARMA Be grateful on what you have achieved in your life today because God always knows how much you can g... RIFKY NURVIANTO He does not like showing his feelings and would rather do a cruel thing than open his heart freely. FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY
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