Seneca the Younger Quotes

Quos vilt perdere dementat' Whome the gods wish to destroy, they first drive made (Latin).

The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have the power to wake it.

Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is sufficient. Let a second offence bear its punishment.

Extremes are vicious, and proceed from men; compensation is just, and proceeds from God.

It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.

He deposes Doom Who hath suffered him.

When I forget my sovereign, may my God forget me.

I cannot think the disputes and jealousies of Heaven are tried and settled by the swords of earth.

There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God

God warns before he wounds.

God takes what the enemy meant for your bad and turns it for your good! It wasn't a set back but a set up! Wait and see what God is getting ready to do for you!

Those who will not deliver themselves into the hand of God's mercy cannot be delivered out of the hand of His justice.

If God has nothing better to do than punish schoolgirls for a bit of tomfoolery, then I've no use for God.

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: / He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored.

Now, said I aloud, My dear Father's Words are come to pass: God's Justice has overtaken me, and I have none to help or hear me: I rejected the Voice of Providence.

When a man takes the road to destruction, the gods help him along.

Whom man kills, him God restoreth to life.

One of these days the dam of Gods mercy will give way to his justice.

I looked around for God's judgments, but saw no signs of them.

There is in St. Paul's definite, soul-stirring assertion of the wrath of God and the reality of the judgment at hand, a truth more profound than any that underlies our somewhat enfeebled ideas of universal benevolence and the determined progress of the race.

You live in a tower that soars to heaven and goes unpunished by God.

Whom the gods notice they destroy.

Let evil swiftly befall those who have wrongly condemned us - God will avenge our death.

God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest.

Don't touch the ark of God! It is the God of Israel who is wounding people with regards to their sin. Do NOT comfort the soul that God is breaking.