“Well, we wish you were thirty-three thousand killed, but we are thankful to our Father for thirty-three.”
2000s, Virginia Tech Massacre: God's Wrath (2007)
Context: The Lord sent a world-class whopper of a massacre to Virginia Tech, killing thirty-three, drawing headlines like 'Shocked!', 'Horrified!', 'The worst massacre in US history!'. Well, we wish you were thirty-three thousand killed, but we are thankful to our Father for thirty-three.
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American pastor and activist 1929–2014Related quotes

“When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.”

Source: Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne

“Here lie my thirty-thousand Jews.”
at Babi Yar
Source: [Sereny, Gitta, Gitta Sereny, 1974, Into That Darkness: From Mercy Killing to Mass Murder, 2005 paperback, Pimlico, London, 978-0-7126-7447-8, 97 http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ntgT48CY1wwC&pg=PA97] Sereny also mentions the story in her 1995 biography of Albert Speer: [Sereny, Gitta, Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth, 1996 paperback, Picador, London, 978-0-330-34697-9, 272 http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=_Z3gKDdRgL8C&lpg=PP1&pg=PA272]

1850s, Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850), The Present Time (February 1, 1850)
Context: Between our Black West Indies and our White Ireland, between these two extremes of lazy refusal to work, and of famishing inability to find any work, what a world have we made of it, with our fierce Mammon-worships, and our benevolent philanderings, and idle godless nonsenses of one kind and another! Supply-and-demand, Leave-it-alone, Voluntary Principle, Time will mend it:—till British industrial existence seems fast becoming one huge poison-swamp of reeking pestilence physical and moral; a hideous living Golgotha of souls and bodies buried alive; such a Curtius' gulf, communicating with the Nether Deeps, as the Sun never saw till now. These scenes, which the Morning Chronicle is bringing home to all minds of men,—thanks to it for a service such as Newspapers have seldom done,—ought to excite unspeakable reflections in every mind. Thirty thousand outcast Needlewomen working themselves swiftly to death; three million Paupers rotting in forced idleness, helping said Needlewomen to die: these are but items in the sad ledger of despair.

"The Singularity," The New Humanists: Science at the Edge (2003)

30,000 Pounds of Bananas
Song lyrics, Verities & Balderdash (1974)

“I'd hate the sound of thirty thousand people booing.”
After being asked if he ever gets stage fright
Interview during the 1977 Australian tour, included in "ABBA: The Movie"