Our Lord has many ways of working. The only thing that can matter is to be obedient to what, so far as we know His will, is His word for us, and to keep to it till He directs otherwise.
—Amy Carmichael
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
—Mark Twain
“I do not know how it is that we have been kept together in love, helped to abound in labour, and enabled to be firm in the faith, unless it be that special grace has watched over us.”
We should examine our prayers every now and again to discover how much sincerity & spontaneity they possess. We should insist on keeping them simple, candid, fresh & original.
—AW Tozer
The life of the dead is placed on the memories of the living. The love you gave in life keeps people alive beyond their time. Anyone who was given love will always live on in another’s heart.
—Cicero
I remind you that it is characteristic of the natural man to keep himself so busy with unimportant trifles that he is able to avoid the settling of the most important matters relating to life & existence.
—AW Tozer
Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
—Albert Einstein
Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait ’til the first dawning opens slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
—Isaac Newton
…upon a day of thanksgiving kept in this place, I was enabled to recall and recount over the mercies of God, in such a manner as greatly affected me, and filled me with thankfulness and praise.
—David Brainerd
Some who may be drawn to commit sin yet are none of the servants of sin, because they do heartily beg the assistance of grace to keep them from sin: Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins, says the psalmist, let them not have dominion over me (Ps. 19:13).
—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
Your heart may be kept from shrinking back at [death] by considering the necessity of death, in order to the full fruition of God. Whether you are willing to die or not, I assure you there is no other way to obtain the full satisfaction of your soul and complete its happiness.
—John Flavel
Unite with a church where there is a spirit of prayer, where the prayer-meetings are well kept up.
—R. A. Torrey
The sincerity of our profession much depends upon the care we exercise in keeping our hearts. Most certainly, that man who is careless of the frame of his heart, is but a hypocrite in his profession, however eminent he be in the externals of religion.
—John Flavel
The intrinsic evil and filthiness that is in sin keeps back the gracious soul from it: Abhor that which is evil; hate it as hell itself (Rom 12:9).
—John Flavel
Keeping the heart is the most important business of a Christian’s life. Without this we are but formalists in religion: all our professions, gifts and duties signify nothing.
—John Flavel
Stop in the midst of the bustle and hurry and temptation of the day for thanksgiving and prayer. A few minutes spent alone with God at midday will go far to keep you calm in the midst of the worries and anxieties of modern life.
—R. A. Torrey
Christ’s words must abide or continue in us. We must study His words, fairly devour His words, let them sink deep into our thought and into our heart, keep them in our memory, obey them constantly in our life, let them shape and mold our daily life and our every act.
—R. A. Torrey
Many attempt to be disciples of Jesus and not let the world know it. To be a secret disciple means to be no disciple at all. If one really has received Christ he cannot keep it to himself.
—R. A. Torrey
Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.
Augustine
Get up into your watch-tower and just keep looking up to God. Look at nothing else, least of all your problem.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Our preservation is a Trinitarian work.
God the Father keeps and preserves us.
God the Son intercedes for us.
God the Holy Spirit indwells and assists us.
R.C. Sproul
“To this very day, the ungodly are afraid of Christ, and, often, their raging against him resembles the noise made by the boy who, when hurrying through the graveyard, whistles to keep his courage up.”
– Charles Spurgeon
He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
—Sigmund Freud
A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
—Sigmund Freud
Have you true faith? Keep it not to yourselves; be willing, as occasion offers, freely to communicate it to others.
—George Whitefield
Were not men so wise, the world, perhaps, would be more quiet, when the end of wisdom is to keep it in quietness.
—John Owen
Now may He who from the dead
Brought the Shepherd of the sheep,
JESUS CHRIST, our King and Head,
All our souls in safety keep!
—John Newton
Keep not money, but keep good people’s company.
—Nikolai Gogol