The church’s greatest impact on the world comes when it is committed to faithfully preaching, teaching and living out the Word of God in the church and culture.
— Brian Brodersen
Live as if you thought that Christ might come at any time!
If we would know whether our faith is genuine—we do well to ask ourselves how we are living.
— J.C. Ryle
I was praised a lot and condemned more than once for my works, and I came to the conclusion that the measure of the progress of creativity in life should be good, not evil.
I look at the blue Dnipro, listen to the lapping of the waves. There is nothing more expensive in the world for me. I don't want to and will not part with my river under any circumstances. And if I was destined to do something else beautiful and great in life, then only on its gentle and clean shores…
— Oleksandr Dovzhenko
I still can't watch the funeral. However, they appear in all my scripts and films, because the question of life and death affected my consciousness when I was still a child and left a mark on all my works.
— Oleksandr Dovzhenko
Life is so short. Hurry up to do good!
— Oleksandr Dovzhenko
How hard, painful, and scary it is to be childless in life and in creativity.
— Oleksandr Dovzhenko
It is better to die a hero than to live a slave.
— Oleksandr Dovzhenko
In your love of life… I see the ordinary fear of death.
— Oleksandr Dovzhenko
There is separation in all my films. The heroes say goodbye, hurrying somewhere far away, forward, to another life – unknown, but charming, better. They say goodbye hastily and carelessly and, pulling away, do not look back. This is my mother. Born for songs, she cried all her life, saying goodbye forever.
— Oleksandr Dovzhenko
A person should always remember where he started in life. A person has no right to be fatherless.
— Oleksandr Dovzhenko
It's hard to live in the world, but you want to live.
Our life is a journey, and a friendly conversation is a cart that makes the traveler's way easier.
— Hryhoriy Skovoroda
Knowing God in Christ brings with it eternal life, imperturbable joy, and heavenly blessedness. These are not merely effects, but the knowing of God is itself immediately a new, eternal, and blessed life.
—Herman Bavinck
One always dies too soon — or too late. And yet one’s whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are — your life, and nothing else.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
Don’t you know that a midnight hour comes when everyone has to take off his mask? Do you think life always lets itself be trifled with? Do you think you can sneak off a little before midnight to escape this?
—Søren Kierkegaard
It is not theft, properly speaking, to take secretly and use another’s property in a case of extreme need: because that which he takes for the support of his life becomes his own property by reason of that need.
—Thomas Aquinas
God did not reveal himself, so that from his revelation we might construct a philosophical concept of God, but so that we might receive, acknowledge, and confess him, the one true, living God, as our God.
—Herman Bavinck
He who has been smitten with the love of God & the wonder of the cross can never again be tolerant in things that touch his soul & the souls of his fellow men. He will live beside, be patient with, minister to, pray for & love anyone, but never will he compromise the truth
—Tozer
O turn unto your rest! Turn to Him in whom are hid all the treasures of happiness! Turn unto him who giveth liberally unto all men; and he will give you to drink of the water of life freely.
—John Wesley
The life of every individual, viewed as a whole and in general, and when only its most significant features are emphasized, is really a tragedy; but gone through in detail it has the character of a comedy.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Knowledge is power—so much we can understand, at least to a certain extent. All knowing is a triumph of the spirit over matter, a subjection of the earth to the lordship of man. But that knowledge should be life—who can understand that?
—Herman Bavinck
O what reason of thankfulness have I on account of this retirement! I find that I do not, and it seems I cannot, lead a Christian life when I am abroad, and cannot spend time in devotion, Christian conversation, and serious meditation, as I should do.
—David Brainerd
Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that’s all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
It was not to the unsaved that the words “Do not fret” were spoken, but to God-fearing persons capable of understanding spiritual things. We Christians need to watch & pray lest we fall into this temptation by an irritable spirit under the stress & strain of life.
—AW Tozer
Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.
—Henry Ford
In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity.
Not separately, one for the soul and the other for the body, but for the two together.
With these means, man can attain perfection.
—Plato
We might well pray for God to invade & conquer us, for until He does we remain in peril. The strength of our flesh is an ever present danger to our souls. Deliverance can come only by the defeat of our old life. Safety & peace come only after we have been forced to our knees.
Allowing then that a life of religion were a life of misery; that a life of wickedness were a life of happiness; and, that a man were assured of enjoying that happiness for the term of threescore years…
—John Wesley