“When everything goes wrong, what a joy to test your soul and see if it has endurance and courage! An invisible and all-powerful enemy—some call him God, others the Devil, seem to rush upon us to destroy us; but we are not destroyed.”

Source: Zorba the Greek

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "When everything goes wrong, what a joy to test your soul and see if it has endurance and courage! An invisible and all-…" by Nikos Kazantzakis?
Nikos Kazantzakis photo
Nikos Kazantzakis 222
Greek writer 1883–1957

Related quotes

Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya photo

“I call on the U.S.A. to be with us. It’s very important when a regime is destroying everything in Belarus, destroying mass media, destroying all the organizations, it’s extremely important to support all those people.”

Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya (1982) Belarusian politician and educator

"Belarusian Opposition Leader Hopes to Spur Action During Washington Visit" in Voice of America https://www.voanews.com/a/europe_belarusian-opposition-leader-hopes-spur-action-during-washington-visit/6208416.html (19 July 2021)

“When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him Vandal. When he wantonly destroys one of the works of God we call him Sportsman.”

Joseph Wood Krutch (1893–1970) American writer, critic, and naturalist

The Great Chain of Life (1956), Chapter 9 "The Vandal and the Sportsman" http://books.google.com/books?id=Ydc0cooCB6QC&lpg=PA146&q="when+a+man+wantonly+destroys+one+of+the+works+of+man+we+call+him+vandal+when+he+wantonly+destroys+one+of+the+works+of+god+we+call+him+sportsman"#v=onepage. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2009, p. 148.

Sri Aurobindo photo

“Mankind has used two powerful weapons to destroy its own powers and enjoyment, wrong indulgence and wrong abstinence.”

Sri Aurobindo (1872–1950) Indian nationalist, freedom fighter, philosopher, yogi, guru and poet

Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913), Karma

Claude Louis Hector de Villars photo

“If God lets us have the grace of losing such a battle again, Your Majesty can count on all of his enemies being destroyed.”

Claude Louis Hector de Villars (1653–1734) Marshal General of France

Villars to Louis XIV after the Battle of Malplaquet, quoted in Anquetil, Louis-Pierre, Histoire de France depuis les Gaulois jusqu'à la mort de Louis XVI (1819), Paris: Chez Janet et Cotelle, p. 241.

Sun Myung Moon photo
Isaac Asimov photo

“If, as I maintain and firmly believe, there is no objective definition of intelligence, and what we call intelligence is only a creation of cultural fashion and subjective prejudice, what the devil is it we test when we make use of an intelligence test?”

Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …

"Thinking About Thinking" in Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1975
General sources

Edward Norris Kirk photo

“A refusal to believe that God loves us is the unbelief which destroys the soul.”

Edward Norris Kirk (1802–1874) American Christian missionary, pastor, teacher, evangelist and writer

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 607.

Yehuda Berg photo
Malcolm X photo

“Allah has blessed us. He has destroyed twenty-two of our enemies.”

Malcolm X (1925–1965) American human rights activist

Quoted in Julius Lester, "Look Out, Whitey!" New York: Dial Press, 1968. p. 138.
Attributed

Related topics