Everything passes, but not God and not love.
— Hryhoriy Skovoroda
On January 31, 1944, I was brought to the Kremlin. There I was cut to pieces and the bloodied parts of my soul were scattered for shame and slaughter in all the gatherings. Everything that was evil, unkind, vengeful, trampled and defiled me. I held on for a year and fell. My heart could not bear the burden of lies and evil.
Everything passes, but love remains after everything.
— Hryhoriy Skovoroda
Without desire, everything is difficult, even the easiest thing.
— Hryhoriy Skovoroda
Some people hold the truth, but in such a cold stern way that it will do no good. Other people want to love everything, and so they give up much of the truth; but we are to hold the truth in love; we are to hold the truth even if we lose all, but we are to hold it in love.
—D. L. Moody
Principles for the Development of a Complete Mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses- especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
Since the fall of man the earth has been a disaster area & everyone lives with a critical emergency. Nothing is normal. Everything is wrong & everyone is wrong until made right by the redeeming work of Christ & the effective operation of the Holy Spirit.
—AW Tozer
In the kingdom of ends everything has either a price or a dignity. What has a price can be replaced by something else as its equivalent; what on the other hand is raised above all price and therefore admits of no equivalent has a dignity.
—Immanuel Kant
Truth is no harlot who throws her arms round the neck of him who does not desire her; on the contrary, she is so coy a beauty that even the man who sacrifices everything to her can still not be certain of her favors.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
“Everything is in a constant state of change, and the wise investor recognizes that success is a process of continually seeking answers to new questions.”
— Sir John Templeton
We all have everything we need within us to create our fullest potential.
“We shall trust everything in those dear hands that were nailed to the cross for us.”
If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up.
Moreover, nothing then would be immoral, everything would be lawful, even cannibalism.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Some people hold the truth, but in such a cold stern way that it will do no good. Other people want to love everything, and so they give up much of the truth; but we are to hold the truth in love; we are to hold the truth even if we lose all, but we are to hold it in love.
—D. L. Moody
But in flattery, even if everything is false down to the last note, it is still pleasant, and people will listen not without pleasure; with coarse pleasure, perhaps, but pleasure nevertheless.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
If a person only thinks about himself and seeks his own benefit in everything, he’ll never be happy. If you want to live for yourself, live for others. Seneca
—Leo Tolstoy
A person can live a good life only if he understands that he’s a spiritual being, united with all beings and with Everything. If a person understands himself merely as a physical being, he’ll live only for himself, and someone who lives only for himself cannot live a good life.
—Leo Tolstoy
My love for imaginary objects and my facility in lending myself to them ended by disillusioning me with everything around me, and determined that love of solitude which I have retained ever since that time.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
In order to live a good life you have to place truth above everything else, so that you don’t fear speaking the truth even if the truth harms you as you speak.
—Leo Tolstoy
“Seek also heavenly objects. Aim at the glory of God in everything.”
– Charles Spurgeon
The mind is everything; what you think you become.
—Socrates
When everything seem to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
—Henry Ford
“It is because we are in Christ that we become partakers of everything that Christ,— we are circumcised with him, dead with him, buried with him, risen with him, because we cannot be separated from him.”
– Charles Spurgeon
That is really the very height of preaching, when men make themselves nothing and Christ everything.
—D. L. Moody
As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
—Carl Jung
Optimism,” said Cacambo, “What is that?” “Alas!” replied Candide, “It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst.
—Voltaire
Seeing among the gloomy people an open pleasant smile addressed to you, you begin to understand that everything is not so bad in this world, there is a lot of good ahead of you.
—Taras Shevchenko
Love is a life-giving fire in the human soul, and everything created by man under the influence of this feeling is marked by the seal of life and poetry.
—Taras Shevchenko
“Hold everything earthly with a loose hand;
but grasp eternal things with a deathlike grip.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“When the heart is fully influenced by God’s Spirit, then the will and the intellect, the memory and the imagination, and everything else which makes up the inward man, comes under cheerful allegiance to the King of kings.”
– Charles Spurgeon