Cruelty and universal stupidity, dressing in atavistic feathers, glorified by millennia of bookish lies and bloodthirsty stupidity, turn me into something worse, stupider and more terrible than a wild beast. I am not talking about such noble and respectable animals as a dog, horse or cow.
All wealth, all glory – it is all vanity vanity; and the saber, and the mace with a bundle, and the ermine cuirae will one day lie beside the dead bones.
On January 31, 1944, I was brought to the Kremlin. There I was cut to pieces and the bloodied parts of my soul were scattered for shame and slaughter in all the gatherings. Everything that was evil, unkind, vengeful, trampled and defiled me. I held on for a year and fell. My heart could not bear the burden of lies and evil.
— Oleksandr Dovzhenko
The treasure of merit is therefore not deposited by Christ anywhere on earth, not in the hands of a pope or a priest, not in a church or a sacrament; but the treasure of merit lies solely with and in Christ himself.
—Herman Bavinck
It is a petty view of our Father’s love and wisdom which demands or expects an answer according to our desires, apart from His wisdom. We see hardly one inch of the narrow lane of time. To our God eternity lies open as a meadow.
—Amy Carmichael
Cross and crown, death and resurrection, humiliation and exaltation lie on the same line. As Jesus Himself put it after His resurrection: It was necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and so enter His glory (Luke 24:26).
—Herman Bavinck
The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
—George Orwell
The treasure of merit is therefore not deposited by Christ anywhere on earth, not in the hands of a pope or a priest, not in a church or a sacrament; but the treasure of merit lies solely with and in Christ himself.
—Herman Bavinck
Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Christian relaxes in the temperate use of all the gifts of Providence. Imagination, and taste, and genius, and the beauties of creation, and the works of art, lie open to him.
—William Wilberforce
There is no goal that can justify lies.
—Leo Tolstoy
Christian doctrine lies at the very roots of faith.
—J. Gresham Machen
The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.
—Sun Tzu
To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.
—Sun Tzu
He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.
—Sun Tzu
“There he lies silently in the tomb.
He, who is to bruise the old serpent’s’ head, is himself bruised.”
Cross and crown, death and resurrection, humiliation and exaltation lie on the same line. As Jesus Himself put it after His resurrection: It was necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and so enter His glory (Luke 24:26).
—Herman Bavinck
Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the attack.
—Sun Tzu
What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on.
—Voltaire
Your gifts lie in the place where your values, passions and strengths meet. Discovering that place is the first step toward sculpting your masterpiece, Your Life.
—Michelangelo
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
Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
—Oscar Wilde
“We never rest till the Comforter makes us lie down.”
— Charles Spurgeon
Humanity can live without science, it can live without bread, but it cannot live without beauty.
Without beauty, there would be nothing left to do in this life.
Here the secret lies.
Here lies the entire story.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Humanity can live without science, it can live without bread, but it cannot live without beauty.
Without beauty, there would be nothing left to do in this life.
Here the secret lies.
Here lies the entire story.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
—George Orwell
The most offensive is not their lying – one can always forgive lying – lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth – what is offensive is that they lie and worship their own lying.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
—Pablo Picasso
The meaning and design of a problem seem not to lie in its solution, but in our working at it incessantly.
—Carl Jung