God did not reveal himself, so that from his revelation we might construct a philosophical concept of God, but so that we might receive, acknowledge, and confess him, the one true, living God, as our God.
—Herman Bavinck
Life is nothing without friendship.
—Cicero
It was not to the unsaved that the words “Do not fret” were spoken, but to God-fearing persons capable of understanding spiritual things. We Christians need to watch & pray lest we fall into this temptation by an irritable spirit under the stress & strain of life.
—AW Tozer
Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over you. While you live, while it is in your power, be good.
—Marcus Aurelius
The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.
—Cicero
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
A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
—Cicero
The Christian moral life has faith at its root, the law as its rule, and the honor of God as its goal.
—Herman Bavinck
Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.
—Vincent Van Gogh
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
Christianity, according to its own confession, does not exist through the strength and fidelity of its confessors, but the life and will of its Mediator.
—Herman Bavinck
Just as faith is the fruit of regeneration on the side of the mind, so repentance is the expression of new life on the side of the will.
—Herman Bavinck
Knowing God in Christ brings with it eternal life, imperturbable joy, and heavenly blessedness. These are not merely effects, but the knowing of God is itself immediately a new, eternal, and blessed life.
—Herman Bavinck
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
—Albert Einstein
The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.
—Albert Einstein
If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.
—Albert Einstein
O that I could begin this year with God, and spend the whole of it to his glory, either in life or death!
—David Brainerd
Surely God is worthy of my highest affection, and most devout adoration; he is infinitely worthy, that I should make him my last end, and live for ever to him. Oh that I might never more, in any one instance, live to myself!
—David Brainerd
I think I do not desire to live one minute for any thing that earth can afford. Oh, that I could live for none but God, till my dying moment!
—David Brainerd
My soul felt a pleasing, yet painful concern, lest I should spend some moments without God. O may I always live to God!
—David Brainerd
Time appeared a moment, life a vapour, and all its enjoyments as empty bubbles, and fleeting blasts of wind.
—David Brainerd
This, through grace, I can say at present, with regard to life or death, ‘The Lord do with me as seems good in his sight;’ that whether I live or die, I may glorify him, who is ‘worthy to receive blessing, and honour, and dominion for ever. Amen.’
—David Brainerd
As long as I see any thing to be done for God, life is worth having; but O how vain and unworthy it is to live for any lower end!
—David Brainerd
O what reason of thankfulness have I on account of this retirement! I find that I do not, and it seems I cannot, lead a Christian life when I am abroad, and cannot spend time in devotion, Christian conversation, and serious meditation, as I should do.
—David Brainerd
Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation.
—Isaac Newton
Oh, it refreshed my soul, to think of former things, of desires to glorify God, of the pleasures of living to him!
—David Brainerd
Oh that we could depend more upon the living God, and less upon our own wisdom and strength!
—David Brainerd
They who search after the Philosopher’s Stone by their own rules obliged to a strict and religious life.
—Isaac Newton
Most men need patience to die, but a saint that understands what death admits him to should rather need patience to live.
—John Flavel
Is not eternal life worth the suffering of a moment’s pain? If I suffer with Him, I shall reign with Him (2 Tim. 2:12).
—John Flavel