Quotes about Spoiled
That this world spoiled by evil and suffering still exists at all is an example of God's mercy, not his cruelty.
— Philip Yancey
This is the work and skill of God, to correct and emend what had been ruined by Jacob's error. He can make evil matters good when we have spoiled and harmed matters.
— Martin Luther
As for a spoiled life, no life is spoiled but one whose growth is arrested. If you want to mar a nature, you have merely to reform it.
— Oscar Wilde
of praise and prayer that has been going on for millennia and across all cultures. Not to try to inhabit them, while continuing to invent nonpsalmic "worship" based on our own feelings of the moment, risks being like a spoiled child who
— NT Wright
God created Adam lord of all living creatures, but Eve spoiled it all.
— Martin Luther
Why was the amendment, expressly declaring the right of the people to exclude slavery, voted down? Plainly enough now, the adoption of it would have spoiled the niche for the Dred Scott decision.
— Abraham Lincoln
Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness.
— CS Lewis
Spoiled children lack a true respect for authority, especially when they do not get what they want when they want it. Their lack of reverence for authority sets them up to be easily offended with God.
— John Bevere
But I mean, even my family gets spoiled at times watching me doing things that I do, on and off the court.
— LeBron James
he loathed his own beauty, and flinging the mirror on the floor, crushed it into silver splinters beneath his heel. It was his beauty that had ruined him, his beauty and the youth that he had prayed for. But for those two things, his life might have been free from stain. His beauty had been to him but a mask, his youth but a mockery. What was youth at best? A green, an unripe time, a time of shallow moods, and sickly thoughts. Why had he worn its livery? Youth had spoiled him.
— Oscar Wilde
I want you to understand that God has never been nor will ever be invented. He is not a product of any sort of imagination... Don't complain about the way God answers your prayers...Your problem is not that God is not fulfilling, your problem is that you are spoiled.
— Donald Miller
A servant pampered from his youth will bring grief in the end.
— Proverbs 29:21