Quotes about Cruelty
All the weapons of hate and cruelty cannot stand against God's love. The spiritually blind and intentionally evil try to oppose it, but they cannot ultimately win. That's because all creation was formed and is sustained by God
— Stormie Omartian
That this world spoiled by evil and suffering still exists at all is an example of God's mercy, not his cruelty.
— Philip Yancey
If the Tiber rises too high, or the Nile too low, the remedy is always feeding Christians to the lions.
— Tertullian
It is impossible to enter into fellowship with God when you are in a critical mood. Criticism serves to make you harsh, vindictive, and cruel, and leaves you with the soothing and flattering idea that you are somehow superior to others.
— Oswald Chambers
They delighted in destroying the life of animals; and the use of flesh for food rendered them still more cruel and bloodthirsty, until they came to regard human life with astonishing indifference.
— Ellen White
There is a passion and drive for cruel deeds which only the awe and fear of God can soothe; there is a suffocating selfishness in man which only holiness can ventilate.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
and made their lives bitter with hard labor in brick and mortar, and with all kinds of work in the fields. Every service they imposed was harsh.
— Exodus 1:14
They grasp the bow and spear; they are cruel and merciless. Their voice roars like the sea, and they ride upon horses, lined up like men in formation against you, O Daughter of Zion.”
— Jeremiah 6:23
Of all the black crimes that humanity is committing against the great Creation, vivisection is the blackest.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Nothing can be more cruel than the leniency which abandons others to their sin. Nothing can be more compassionate than the severe reprimand which calls another Christian in one's community back from the path of sin.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
They worked the Israelites ruthlessly
— Exodus 1:13
Wrath is cruel and anger is like a flood, but who can withstand jealousy?
— Proverbs 27:4