Happiness, happiness… There are things much greater than happiness, much deeper and, if you want to know, much more authentic.
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
If it is a great thing to rule over bodies, it is even greater to rule over souls.
— Hryhoriy Skovoroda
The soul takes nothing with her to the next world but her education and her culture.
At the beginning of the journey to the next world, one’s education and culture can either provide the greatest assistance, or else act as the greatest burden, to the person who has just died.
—Plato
One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you know it but little you will be able to love it only a little or not at all.
—Leonardo Da Vinci
I don’t object to seeing men weep over their sins. I don’t know why it is not manly for a man to weep over his sins. It is more manly than to trifle with salvation, and make light of serious things. A great many men seem to be ashamed to shed tears over their sins.
—D. L. Moody
The great aim and scope at all Christ’s ordinances and officers, are to bring men into union with Christ, and so build them up to perfection in him; or to unite them to, and confirm them in Christ.
—John Flavel
He who has felt that Face of beauty,
Which wakes the world’s great hymn,
For one unutterable moment
Bent in love o’er him,
In that look finds earth, heaven, men and angels
Grow nearer through Him.
—Amy Carmichael
So let us praise Him now, though it may be from under the harrow, from the depths, from anywhere. We shall never have the chance again to love Him in the peace of a great contentment, with the word ringing in our ear, And blessed is he whosoever shall not be offended in Me.
—Amy Carmichael
No sooner has a soul escaped than the great Adversary takes steps to ensnare it again. The fiercest attacks are made on the strongest forts, and the fiercer the battle the young believer is called on to wage, the surer evidence it is of the work of the Holy Spirit in his heart.
—D. L. Moody
It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory, creating new desires and new distresses, and the agony of the devoured animal is always far greater than the pleasure of the devourer.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
—George Orwell
“A lot of great fortunes in the world have been made by owning a single wonderful business. If you understand the business and you know what you are doing, you don’t need very many of them.”
Bolshevism shows the greatest, almost perfect accuracy in one field of its activity – in the field of terror and repression.
Who wants to be a great artist, he should not dirty himself.
— Volodymyr Vynnychenko
If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself.
Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Breathe, Wind of God. Forgiving Love, renew us;
Form us and discipline to Thy desire.
O Man of War, great Son of Man, endue us;
O mighty Spirit, kindle with Thy fire!
—Amy Carmichael
He who talks a lot does little. A wise person is always afraid that his words will be greater than his deeds. Therefore, he’s more usually silent and speaks only when it is necessary for others rather than himself.
—Leo Tolstoy
He who talks a lot does little. A wise person is always afraid that his words will be greater than his deeds. Therefore, he’s more usually silent and speaks only when it is necessary for others rather than himself.
—Leo Tolstoy
“It is ours to make doctrine simple; this is to be a main part of our work. Teach the little ones the whole truth and nothing but the truth; for instruction is the great want of the child’s nature.”
“It is ours to make doctrine simple; this is to be a main part of our work. Teach the little ones the whole truth and nothing but the truth; for instruction is the great want of the child’s nature.”
– Charles Spurgeon
For us Jesus does not merely place His fingers in the ears and say, Be opened; for us He does not merely say “Arise and walk.” For us He has done a greater thing–for us He died.
—J. Gresham Machen
For us Jesus does not merely place His fingers in the ears and say, Be opened; for us He does not merely say “Arise and walk.” For us He has done a greater thing–for us He died.
—J. Gresham Machen
“The Lord Jesus himself is the Good Shepherd who laid down his life for the sheep, the Great Shepherd who is brought again from the dead, and the Chief Shepherd under whom he has appointed shepherds to watch for the souls of men.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“The Lord Jesus himself is the Good Shepherd who laid down his life for the sheep, the Great Shepherd who is brought again from the dead, and the Chief Shepherd under whom he has appointed shepherds to watch for the souls of men.”
– Charles Spurgeon
Lust is the source of life’s greatest disasters and agonies. Therefore, it is inherent in people to try to moderate and silence it with all their strength. Yet people in our time do all they can to enflame it, treating lust and infatuation as the most elevated of feelings.
—Leo Tolstoy
“Let us seek more faith, more love, more patience, more zeal: let us labour after greater charity, greater brotherly kindness, greater humbleness of spirit.”
– Charles Spurgeon
I had great hopes of the ingathering of precious souls to Christ; not only among my own people, but others also.
—David Brainerd
“Let us spend our risen life on earth as Jesus spent his,— in a greater seclusion from the world and in greater nearness to heaven than ever.”
– Charles Spurgeon
In war, then, let your great object be victory, not lengthy campaigns.
—Sun Tzu