If he (the truly gracious soul) and his God have not met in secret and had some communion in the morning, he sensibly finds it in the deadness and unprofitableness of his heart and life all the day after.
—John Flavel
Still good advice (whether pocket Bibles or phones):
In everyone’s life many minutes each day are lost, waiting for meals, riding on trains, etc. … Carry a pocket Bible with you, and save those golden moments by putting them to the very best use, listening to the voice of God.
—R. A. Torrey
We live in a day in which false doctrine abounds on every hand and the only Christian who is safe from being led into error is the one who studies his Bible for himself daily.
—R. A. Torrey
There is wonderful freedom in this life of simply following Jesus. This path is straight and plain.
—R. A. Torrey
When a man compares himself with others: thus measuring ourselves by ourselves, and comparing ourselves among ourselves, we show our folly and nourish our pride; but if any man will compare his own life with Christ’s, he will find abundant cause at every time to be humbled.
—John Flavel
The one who neglects his Bible is bound to make a failure of the Christian life.
—R. A. Torrey
One can pray while walking the street, or riding in the car, and one should lift the heart to God right in the busiest moments of life, but we need set set times of prayer, times when we go alone with God, shut the door and talk to our Father in the secret place.
—R. A. Torrey
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
It is only a wink, and you shall see God. Your happiness shall not be deferred till the resurrection, but as soon as the body is dead the gracious soul is swallowed up in life (Rom 8:10–11).
—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
We don’t know what is before us, but if we have received Jesus Christ, let storms come, let deaths come, let sickness come, let pestilence come, we are sure of life beyond the grave.
—D. L. Moody
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
We are living in very strange days. Some people tell us it does not make any difference what a man believes in if he is only sincere. No greater delusion ever came out of the pit of hell than that. It is ruining more souls at present than anything else.
—D. L. Moody
The man who is living right with God is always praising Him. The blessings He showers upon us are more numerous than the hairs of our heads.
—D. L. Moody
If you wish to possess love for God’s Word, study it diligently and so become like an artesian well – overflowing with the water of life to refresh thirsty souls.
—D. L. Moody
He does not believe that does not live according to his belief.
—Sigmund Freud
I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Faith in him will enable you to overcome the world, and cause you even to triumph over the lust of the eye and the pride of life.
—George Whitefield
The saints of the Old Testament are saved in Christ as much as you and I are, and all who will ever live must be saved in Christ or not at all.
—Martyn Lloyd Jones
“Behold, the church is Christ’s Eden, watered by the river of life, and so fertilized that all manner of fruits are brought forth unto God.”
– Charles Spurgeon
No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Blessed be the Lord, he is never unmindful of me, but always sends me needed supplies… when I am like one dead, he raises me to life.
—David Brainerd
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
—Henry David Thoreau
I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone.
—Nikolai Gogol
No one is so old as to think that he cannot live one more year.
—Cicero
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
—George Washington
Neither a person nor a nation can exist without some higher idea.
And there is only one higher idea on earth, and it is the idea of the immortality of the human soul, for all other “higher” ideas of life by which humans might live derive from that idea alone.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Underneath this reality in which we live and have our being, another and altogether different reality lies concealed.
—Friedrich Nietzsche