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.”
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
I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
—Henry David Thoreau
My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.
—Charles Dickens
“God, you are not only the greatest source of joy but you are all our joy.”
— Charles Spurgeon
Uncertainty is greater than you think, so widen your estimating ranges.
—Peter R. Rose
The more powerful it grows, the greater the need for humility.
—Laozi
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
—Voltaire
The more you feel the urge to speak, the greater the risk that you’ll say something stupid.
—Leo Tolstoy
We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected. Reverence is a great part of it.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-negation is noble, self-culture is beneficent, self-possession is manly, but to the truly great and inspiring soul they are poor and tame compared to self-abuse.
—Michelangelo
Never was the harvest greater; never were the labourers fewer.
—George Whitefield
“This is a great evidence of the writing of the law upon the heart, when holiness becomes a pleasure, and sin becomes a sorrow.”
– Charles Spurgeon
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
—Michelangelo
I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
—Henry David Thoreau
The great shepherd shall furnish you with food enough, and to spare. Give of your loaves, and you shall take up of the fragments that remain.
—George Whitefield
The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us
—Voltaire
When two great forces oppose each other, the victory will go to the one that knows how to yield.
—Laozi
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work.
—Henry Ford
I don’t remember who exactly, but some deep heart expert said that the surest measurement of friendship is money. And his statement is fair. A true, true friendship that is only expressed in critical, difficult cases, and even it demands this cold yardstick. The most lively, animated language of friendship is money. And the greater the need, the more sincere the friendship, driving away this hungry witch.
—Taras Shevchenko
What greater gift than the love of a cat.
—Charles Dickens
With respect to the death of Christ, there is a great difference betwixt one man and another; he laid down his life for the sheep, he prayed for them, and not for the world.
—John Flavel
I have great respect for a man who can stand up for what he believes is right against all the world. He who can stand alone is a hero.
—D. L. Moody
Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal – at cards.
—Nikolai Gogol
No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
—Ernest Hemingway
“This great blessing of pardoned sin is always connected with the renewal of the heart. It is not given because of the change of heart, but it is always given with the change of heart.”
– Charles Spurgeon