Centuries earlier, Job suffered immeasurable losses. His wealth was stripped from him his family destroyed. Finally, after all else was gone, he was stricken with boils and failing health. Every day and every hour he suffered physical, emotional, and spiritual pain. His friends mocked him, but Job remained faithful. He emphatically declared, For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh I shall see God. (Job 19 25-26.)
Quotes about mocked (16 Quotes)
When they vomited up blood, the soldiers mocked and cursed at them, and taunted them with statements like 'look what your religion has brought you.
History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days. What is the worth of all this The only guide to a man is his conscience the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations but with this shield, however the fate may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
Martyrs, cher ami, must choose between being forgotten, mocked, or made use of. As for being understood never.
And indeed He has revealed to you in the Book that when you hear Allah's communications disbelieved in and mocked at do not sit with them until they enter into some other discourse surely then you would be like them surely Allah will gather together the hypocrites and the unbelievers all in hell.
Nader mocked Bush as the giant corporation in the White House masquerading as a human being ... stomping both conservative and liberal values alike.
Trends don't mean anything to me. If I like something, I'll do it. If I don't, I won't do it, and I wouldn't care if everybody in the country mocked me.
To know that these intelligent, sensitive animals are mocked, poisoned and even intentionally brain damaged, makes me full of shame.
There are multitudes whose life is nothing but a continuous lottery who are always within a few months of plenty and happiness, and how often soever they are mocked with blanks, expect a prize from the next adventure.
It's so easy for propaganda to work, and dissent to be mocked.
I know my life's a pain, and but a span I know my sense is mocked in ev'ry thing And to conclude, I know myself a man, Which is a proud, and yet a wretched thing.
Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.
One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.
Be not deceived God is not mocked for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.