“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
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“A refusal to believe that God loves us is the unbelief which destroys the soul.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 607.

“Allah has blessed us. He has destroyed twenty-two of our enemies.”
Quoted in Julius Lester, "Look Out, Whitey!" New York: Dial Press, 1968. p. 138.
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