Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.
—Cicero
Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
—Sigmund Freud
I have asked myself many times why professing Christian believers can relegate the great missionary imperative of our Lord Jesus Christ to the sidelines of our Christian cause.
—AW Tozer
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
—Albert Einstein
It is ‘through great trials,’ I see, ‘that we must enter the gates of paradise.’
—David Brainerd
Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
—Isaac Newton
Outward sins are sins majoris infamiae, of greatest scandal; but heart sins are oftentimes majoris reatus, sins of greater guilt.
—John Flavel
“The great ocean of Jesus’ loving self-sacrifice can swallow up the mountains of our sins.”
Heart-work is hard work indeed. To shuffle over religious duties with a loose and heedless spirit, will cost no great pains; but to set thyself before the Lord, and tie up thy loose and vain thoughts to a constant and serious attendance upon him; this will cost thee something.
—John Flavel
As the fear of God, so the love of God is a principle of restraint from sin to the soul that is upright. This kept back Joseph from sin: How can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?
—John Flavel
If yet your heart hangs back (from thoughts of death), consider the great advantage you will have by death above all that ever you enjoyed on earth. For your communion with God, the time of perfecting that is now come.
—John Flavel
There is certainly nothing that will bring greater comfort and consolation to the believer than to understand the nature of prophecy.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
It is a great comfort to know that these might prophets of God We’re but men like ourselves and subject to the same frailties as ourselves.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
In spite of everything, I shall rise again; I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.
—Vincent Van Gogh
…this is the devil’s great blunder, that by bringing the Son of God to the cross he was defeating himself, and bringing about his own ultimate doom.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Never let the rush of business crowd out prayer. Prayer is the greatest time saver known to man. The more work crowds you, the more time you should take for prayer.
—R. A. Torrey
Faith is an outward look, not an inward look. A great many people are looking at their feelings, a great many people are looking down here. Don’t be looking at your feelings, but look at heaven; and if you have got the right kind of Christ, you will have the right kind of faith.
—D. L. Moody
There is no limit to God’s power. That is the great mistake with men; they are always limiting God’s power by their own.
—D. L. Moody
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
To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.
Augustine
We are living in very strange days. Some people tell us it does not make any difference what a man believes in if he is only sincere. No greater delusion ever came out of the pit of hell than that. It is ruining more souls at present than anything else.
—D. L. Moody
My friends, if we are going to do a great work for God, we must spend much time in prayer, we have got to be closeted with God.
—D. L. Moody
The spirit of “Who shall be the greatest?” is still one of the greatest hindrances to the church of God today – the endeavor to win for ourselves honor and esteem.
—D. L. Moody
The world itself is proving the Bible’s fundamental postulate that men and women, in and of themselves, cannot arrive at the truth concerning their greatest needs.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.
—William Shakespeare
The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.
Augustine
I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
God’s regenerating power is greater than the strength of the world, Hell, or man’s wicked heart. He can draw the worst sinners to Christ.
Simeon Ashe
Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.
—Aldous Huxley
“We must put away all notion of self-importance.
God will not bless the man who thinks himself great.”
— Charles Spurgeon