If it should ever please God to call me to any situation of power, or to any higher eminence, which I do not expect, he would furnish me with the talents necessary for the discharge of its duties.
—William Wilberforce
“Who knows what is good for us?
God does, and that is better than for us to know.”
— Charles Spurgeon
All people are heading towards God, towards the truth, and they’ll all come together one day.
—Leo Tolstoy
“A man may go to College, he may learn all about the letter of Scripture, but he is no minister of God if he has not sat at [Christ’s] feet, and learned of him[…]”
– Charles Spurgeon
Socrates: God is perfectly simple; he changes not; he deceives not, either by sign or word, by dream or waking vision.
—Plato
The true religion is to be posited not in the knowledge or confession of what God allegedly does or has done for our salvation, but in what we must do to become worthy of this.
—Immanuel Kant
The principal thing wherein praise in our behavior consists, and which is most acceptable to God, is a cheerful obedience.
—Jonathan Edwards
All that can stand in competition with him for our affections, must be our own endeavours for a righteousness to commend us to God.
—John Owen
Bear in mind that God does not see as you see. These very men that the world applauds and that so many try to imitate are the very men that Christ calls fools.
—D. L. Moody
The modern liberals, on the other hand, say that Jesus is God not because they think high of Jesus, but because they think desperately low of God.
—J. Gresham Machen
I am convinced that God is love, this thought has for me a primitive lyrical validity. When it is present to me, I am unspeakably blissful, when it is absent, I long for it more vehemently than does the lover for his object.
—Søren Kierkegaard
How blessed it is to grow more and more like God.
—David Brainerd
There are always chances for strengthening one another’s hands in God; let us not lose our chances.
—Amy Carmichael
“Christ died, but he is not dead now. He is risen; he has gone up into his glory; he sits upon the throne of God; but, at the same time, by a very real spiritual presence he is with all his people, as he said to his disciples[…]”
– Charles Spurgeon
You’ll never recognize God if you believe everything people tell you about God.
—Leo Tolstoy
The study of truth requires a considerable effort – which is why few are willing to undertake it out of love of knowledge – despite the fact that God has implanted a natural appetite for such knowledge in the minds of men.
—Thomas Aquinas
“Oh, to be found in him! God grant we may be! To be plants in his garden, supposing him to be the gardener, is all the heaven we can desire.”
– Charles Spurgeon
Sanctification notes an holy dedication of heart and life to God: our becoming the temples of the living, God, separate from all profane sinful practices, to the Lord’s only use and service.
—John Flavel
God alone is the Author of life; and if you are to be born again, it must be God’s work. You cannot save yourself.
—D. L. Moody
When speaking of divine perfection, we signify that God is just and true and loving, the author of order, not disorder, of good, not evil.
We signify that he is justice, that he is truth, that he is love, that he is order, that he is the very progress of.
—Plato
Do not suffer, for God has not made us to abandon us.
—Michelangelo
“Supposing him to be the gardener, and God to come and walk among the trees of the garden, then I expect he will remove the whole of the garden upward with himself to fairer skies; for he rose, and his people must rise with him.”
– Charles Spurgeon
The generation of the people of God in the world are at this day alive, undevoured, merely on the account of the intercession of the Lord Jesus.
—John Owen
Then only is God praised when the heart is lifted up to God with love, joy, and wonder for what it sees in him and receives from him with a desire of expressing it to him.
—Jonathan Edwards
If God made this world, then i would not want to be the God. It is full of misery and distress that it breaks my heart.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
There must be must be a first mover existing above all – and this we call God.
—Thomas Aquinas
The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.
—Søren Kierkegaard
The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
—Søren Kierkegaard
For he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.
—Søren Kierkegaard
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
—Thomas Jefferson