Gustave Flaubert Quotes

Toxic people defy logic. Some are blissfully unaware of the negative impact that they have on those around them, and others seem to derive satisfaction from creating chaos and pushing other people's buttons.

Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.

The minute you humiliate people, you've lost them for life.

The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed.

Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just; a God who is all love, but not holy; a God who as a heaven for every body, but a hell for none; a God who can allow good and bad to be side by side in time, but will make no distinction between good and broad in eternity. Such a God is an idol of your own, as truly an idol as any snake or crocodile in an Egyptian temple. The hands of your own fancy and sentimentality have made him. He is not the God of the Bible, and beside the God of the Bible there is no God at all.

It's not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.

If we insist upon trying to imagine Him, we end with an idol, made not with hands but with thoughts; and an idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.

Because anyone that can make you feel that bad about yourself is toxic.

The worse of ingratitude lies not in the ossified heart of him who commits it, but we find it in the effect it produces on him against whom it was committed.

The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.

A small unkindness is a great offence.

We should not touch our idols: their gilding will remain on our hands.

Hate won't only destroy us. It will destroy these people that's hating as well.

What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for and to do it so unconsciously.

Gossip harms relationships and that's why it's bad. While we all do it at times, there's a point where it crosses the line and becomes bullying if it damages friendships and causes people to dislike someone.

When you're rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even those you love.

When we try to imagine what God is like we must of necessity use that-which-is-not- God as the raw material for our minds to work on; hence whatever we visualize God to be, He is not, for we have constructed our image out of that which He has made and what He has made is not God. If we insist upon trying to imagine Him, we end with an idol, made not with hands but with thoughts; and an idol of the mind is as offensive to God as an idol of the hand.

Sometimes I try to remember things my mother told me about the awful way he was raised. But why does he have to keep on going? Why would you take something bad out of your mouth and hand it to another, saying, Here, eat this?

The minute you start keeping score, you're destroying the relationship.

I make an idol of my moral consciousness. My pursuit of the good is corrupted by the sin of idolatry.

Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.

Damn all false antitheses to hell, for they generate false gods, they perpetuate idols, they twist and distort our souls, they launch the church into violent pendulum swings who oscillations succeed only in dividing brothers and sisters in Christ

Stay out of my mind. You certainly weren't invited.' Her hands went to her hips. 'And just for the record, your mind needs to be washed out with soap! Half the things you think we're going to do are never going to happen. I could never look at you again.

When you worship an idol, you're substituting a thing for the ultimate.

When we do not adore God, we adore something else. Money and power are false idols which often take the place of God.