Our God DOES satisfy. I think sometimes He has to draw us into strange experiences in order that we shall prove Him to the uttermost, for some purpose out of sight.
—Amy Carmichael
Music is my life and my life is music. Anyone who does not understand this is not worthy of God.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Surely, you can never praise God enough for all these blessings, so plentifully showered down upon you, till you praise Him with angels and archangels, and all the company of heaven!
—John Wesley
“[Christ’s] face is the sun, and his countenance scatters those health-giving beams, and nurturing warmths, and perfecting influences which are needful for maturing the saints in all the sweetness of grace to the glory of God.”
– Charles Spurgeon
If God had granted all the silly prayers I’ve made in my life, where should I be now? – C.S. Lewis
I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
—Oscar Wilde
Knowing God without knowing our wretchedness leads to pride. Knowing our wretchedness without knowing God leads to despair. Knowing Jesus Christ is the middle course, because in him we find both God and our wretchedness.
—Blaise Pascal
The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible.
God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Obedience unites us so closely to God that it in a way transforms us into Him, so that we have no other will but His. If obedience is lacking, even prayer cannot be pleasing to God.
—Thomas Aquinas
To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Wicked men rejoice in many things that are fruits of God’s goodness to them, but they don’t praise him because the foundation of this joy is not anything that they see in God but only the good they receive themselves.
—Jonathan Edwards
GOD forbid, my dear brother, that we should shun to declare the whole counsel of GOD.
—George Whitefield
Wicked men rejoice in many things that are fruits of God’s goodness to them, but they don’t praise him because the foundation of this joy is not anything that they see in God but only the good they receive themselves.
—Jonathan Edwards
So finally we tumble into the abyss, we ask God why he has made us so feeble. But, in spite of ourselves, He replies through our consciences: ‘I have made you too feeble to climb out of the pit, because i made you strong enough not to fall in.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Art does not simply reveal God: it is one of the ways in which God reveals, and thus actualizes, himself.
—Georg Hegel
It has been a great comfort to me to realize anew that it is God and only God we need.
—Amy Carmichael
Although it is easy to deceive one another and to be deceived by others, there is one thing we cannot do – we cannot deceive God.
—D. L. Moody
A person is never closer to God than when he’s in trouble.
—Leo Tolstoy
“One has a work given him of God to do, and if he does it rightly he cannot do it carelessly.”
– Charles Spurgeon
If I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the people of our century, I would simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
—Leo Tolstoy
What I need first of all is not exhortation, but a gospel, not directions for saving myself but knowledge of how God has saved me.
—J. Gresham Machen
God is never angry for His sake, only for ours.
—Thomas Aquinas
By the grace of God, know thyself. Know and feel that thou wast shapen in wickedness, and in sin did thy mother conceive thee; and that thou thyself hast been heaping sin upon sin, ever since thou couldst discern good from evil.
—John Wesley
I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
God sells us all things at the price of labor.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
“Depend upon it, happiness lives next door to the spirit of complete acquiescence in the will of God, and it will be easy to exercise that perfect acquiescence when we suppose the Lord Jesus to be the gardener.”
– Charles Spurgeon
Stranger: There is a time when God guides the world in its course; and there is a time, on completing a cycle, when he lets go.
—Plato
Stranger: There is a time when God guides the world in its course; and there is a time, on completing a cycle, when he lets go (Statesman)
—Plato
All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince.
—Plato
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