“Thus may the Master smile on you, my dearly-beloved, and make you to be such eminent saints that he can have great joy in you; for, then, his joy shall remain in you, and your joy shall be full.”
Some are born great, others achieve greatness.
—William Shakespeare
Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
—Blaise Pascal
“I am not seeking to be great, but to be really useful.”
— Charles Spurgeon
I had the greatest respect for the authorities of my day–until I studied things for myself, and came to my own conclusions.
—Sigmund Freud
The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.
—Heraclitus
The modern liberal desires to produce upon the minds of simple Christians (and upon his own mind) the impression of some sort of continuity between modern liberalism and the thought and life of the great Apostle. But such an impression is altogether misleading.
—J. Gresham Machen
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The great redemptive work is for ever finished, and Christ has done it all. “
– Charles Spurgeon
There can be no greater mistake than to suppose that Jesus ever separated theology from ethics, or that if you remove His theology – His beliefs about God and judgment, future woe for the wicked and future blessedness for the good – you can leave His ethical teaching intact.
—J. Gresham Machen
The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
—Blaise Pascal
“How gloriously has Christ rolled away the great load of human sin, adequately recompensed the claims of divine justice, and magnified the law, and made it honourable!”
– Charles Spurgeon
Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
—Blaise Pascal
Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains. Those who think themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
He parted with the greatest glory, he underwent the greatest misery, he doth the greatest works that ever were, because he loves his spouse, – because he values believers.
—John Owen
Man’s sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.
—Blaise Pascal
“What greater joy can a man have than to feel that he is pleasing Christ?”
– Charles Spurgeon
Show me the sinner that can spread his iniquities to the dimensions (if I may so say) of this grace. Here is mercy enough for the greatest, the oldest, the stubbornest transgressor, – ‘Why will ye die, O house of Israel?’
—John Owen
Show me the sinner that can spread his iniquities to the dimensions (if I may so say) of this grace. Here is mercy enough for the greatest, the oldest, the stubbornest transgressor, – ‘Why will ye die, O house of Israel?’
—John Owen
If you have prayed earnestly or you think a great while and have gone through great discouragement in it, yet pray still. Let the discouragement be what it will.
—Jonathan Edwards
Of course, Alexander the Great was a hero, but why smash the chairs?
—Nikolai Gogol
“The promise of harvest gives joy to the earth. Rob not your Lord of the sheaves which he deserves to gather from your heart and life; but believe his Word, rest upon it, and rejoice in it, realizing that his words of promise are meant to bring you great joy.”
– Charles Spurgeon
We by our sin have exposed ourselves to wrath, to a vindictive justice; but God has done very great things that we might be saved from that wrath
—Jonathan Edwards
What you want, you must consider the greatest of all.
The harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.
—George Washington
Great power involves great responsibility.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt
The reason of this dealing of Christ with his church, in parting with all others for them, is, because he loves her. She is precious and honourable in his sight; thence he puts this great esteem upon her.
—John Owen
The reason of this dealing of Christ with his church, in parting with all others for them, is, because he loves her. She is precious and honourable in his sight; thence he puts this great esteem upon her.
—John Owen
One mark of a great soldier is that he fight on his own terms or fights not at all.
—Sun Tzu
In girls, there is no greater desire than that protected by the father.
—Sigmund Freud