No sooner does the soul begin to feel the life of a promise warming his heart, relieving, cherishing, supporting, delivering from fear, entanglements, or troubles, but it may, it ought to know that the Holy Ghost is there
—John Owen
No sooner does the soul begin to feel the life of a promise warming his heart, relieving, cherishing, supporting, delivering from fear, entanglements, or troubles, but it may, it ought to know that the Holy Ghost is there
—John Owen
On our Earth we can only love with suffering and through suffering.
We cannot love otherwise, and we know of no other sort of love.
I want suffering in order to love.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don’t bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he’s a good man.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don’t bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he’s a good man.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
If you see that the organization of society is bad and wish to correct it, you should know that there’s only one way to do it: all people must become better. And in the task of making people better you have power over only one thing: making yourself better.
—Leo Tolstoy
If you see that the organization of society is bad and wish to correct it, you should know that there’s only one way to do it: all people must become better. And in the task of making people better you have power over only one thing: making yourself better.
—Leo Tolstoy
“We ought to work as if all depended upon us,
and then we are to trust God knowing that all depends on him.”
This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there. – C.S. Lewis
A person who knows he’s going to die in thirty minutes won’t do anything vain, stupid or, most of all, bad in that last half hour. But isn’t the half-century that might separate you from death the same as thirty minutes?
—Leo Tolstoy
He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.
—Sun Tzu
If you want to get heavenly wisdom you must pass through God’s college. Do you know where that is? Why, at the feet of Christ.
—D. L. Moody
Those who talk don’t know.
—Laozi
Knowing God without knowing our wretchedness leads to pride. Knowing our wretchedness without knowing God leads to despair. Knowing Jesus Christ is the middle course, because in him we find both God and our wretchedness.
—Blaise Pascal
You can’t know it, but you can be it, at ease in your own life.
—Laozi
“Oh seek to know on earth the peace of heaven, the rest of heaven, the victory of heaven, the service of heaven, the communion of heaven, the holiness of heaven; you may have foretastes of all these; seek after them.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“The more we know God, the more we shall love him.”
— Charles Spurgeon
Who does not know the evils of war cannot appreciate its benefits.
—Sun Tzu
The fool fears and retreats from evil, because he does not know how to overcome it, and the wise man trusts himself, fights evil and defeats it.
—Taras Shevchenko
Every man with a little leisure and enough money for railway tickets, every man, indeed, who knows how to read, has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.
—Aldous Huxley
Do not slumber or sleep, but be always trimming your spiritual lamp, knowing you are shortly to meet the bridegroom.
—George Whitefield
It is sweet to know and preach, the Christ justifies the ungodly, and that all truly good works are not so much as partly the cause, but the *effect* of our justification before God.
—George Whitefield
The best books.. are those that tell you what you know already.
—George Orwell
we know absolutely nothing about an atonement that is not a vicarious atonement, for that is the only atonement of which the New Testament speaks.
—J. Gresham Machen
“Our best performances are so stained with sin that it is hard to know whether they are good works or bad works.”
— Charles Spurgeon
The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
—Vincent Van Gogh
“So far also we know that one way by which the law is kept written upon a Christian’s heart is this,— a sense of God’s presence.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“If I know God, and yet live for my own profit, for my own honor, for my own comfort, then I do not glorify God as God.”
— Charles Spurgeon
Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen.
—Thomas Aquinas
Men say they don’t want to give up their freedom. There is no freedom until a man knows the Lord Jesus Christ. A man is slave to sin, to his passions and lusts until Christ snaps the fetters and sets him free.
—D. L. Moody