alone

We need to be alone with Him daily; we should give one hour out of the twenty-four, and specially set it apart to get acquainted with God.

—D. L. Moody

Better to go to Heaven alone

than to Hell with the herd.

Charles Spurgeon

Justification, if dependent upon works, cannot possibly stand in the sight of God, it must depend solely on the mercy of God and communion with Christ, and therefore on faith alone.

—John Calvin

No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.

—Friedrich Nietzsche

All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit quiet in a room alone.

—Blaise Pascal

Neither a person nor a nation can exist without some higher idea.

And there is only one higher idea on earth, and it is the idea of the immortality of the human soul, for all other “higher” ideas of life by which humans might live derive from that idea alone.

—Fyodor Dostoevsky

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

—Henry David Thoreau

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

—George Washington

Persons who hold the same view of sin and retribution that Jesus held, to such persons alone, the beauty of Jesus is without flaw.

—J. Gresham Machen

To him alone, from whom every good and perfect gift cometh, be all the thanks and glory.

—George Whitefield

It is in Christ alone, and on the account of his oblation and intercession, that we have any boldness to approach unto him.

—John Owen

Jesus Christ hath ‘consecrated a new and living way’ (for the saints) ‘through the vail, that is to say, his flesh,’ Heb 10:20. He hath consecrated and set it apart for believers, and for them alone.

—John Owen

Gospel grace and pardoning mercy is alone purchased by him, and revealed in him.

—John Owen

There is no *saving knowledge of any property of God*, nor such as brings *consolation*, but what alone is to be had in Christ Jesus, being laid up in him, and manifested by him.

—John Owen