The stock actor is a stage calamity
When the world smiles upon us, and we have got a warm nest, how do we prophesy of rest and peace in those acquisitions, thinking with good Baruch, great things for ourselves, but Providence by a particular or general calamity overturns our plans (Jer. 45:4,5), and all this to turn our hearts from the creature to God.
Good biology without good philosophy will be a calamity.
Now, the education of our children is of national concern, and if they are not educated properly, it is a national calamity.
Well-meant ignorance is a grievous calamity in high places.
Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint.
Do not accustom yourself to consider debt only as an inconvenience; you will find it a calamity.
We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.
He who faces no calamity gains no courage.
Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.
The calamity that comes is never the one we had prepared ourselves for.
Love becomes greater and nobler in calamity.
The thing is, Obama is right that it would be a calamity for the government to default on its debt by not meeting its obligations. Such a thing has never happened and can't be allowed to happen.
There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice
It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence.
We all know by theory that there is no permanent happiness in this life: But the weight of the precept is not felt in the same manner as when it is confirmed to us by a heavy calamity.
Bear calamities with meekness.
Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity.
No calamity happens to those who eagerly follow auspicious customs and the rule of good conduct, to those who are always careful of purity, and to those who mutter ,sacred texts and offer burnt oblations.
Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.
