The true reason why any despise *the new birth* is, because they hate *a new life*.
—John Owen
In any case, frequent punishments are a sign of weakness or slackness in the government. There is no man so bad that he cannot be made good for something. No man should be put to death, even as an example, if he can be left to live without danger to society.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Social life is based on consciousness, not science. If there’s no honesty, no respect for truth, no respect for responsibilities, no love of one’s neighbor—in a word, if there’s no virtue—everything is in danger, everything crumbles.
—Leo Tolstoy
Nothing will beautify your life and the life of others like establishing kindness as a habit.
—Leo Tolstoy
I’m ashamed to recall how often I failed to live according to my conscience and instead submitted to foolish customs and rules that everyone else accepts.
—Leo Tolstoy
The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.
—Heraclitus
If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up.
Moreover, nothing then would be immoral, everything would be lawful, even cannibalism.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
It’s not my job to preach a sermon. Art is anyhow a homily. My job is to speak in living images, not in arguments. I must exhibit life full-face, not discuss life.
—Nikolai Gogol
The modern liberal desires to produce upon the minds of simple Christians (and upon his own mind) the impression of some sort of continuity between modern liberalism and the thought and life of the great Apostle. But such an impression is altogether misleading.
—J. Gresham Machen
“Only my faith makes life worthwhile to live.”
— Charles Spurgeon
Praise is the act of intelligent creatures and not the act of mere machines or things without life.
—Jonathan Edwards
I’ve been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easily.
—Sigmund Freud
To live is not to breathe but to act. It is to make use of our organs, our senses, our faculties, of all the parts of ourselves which give us the sentiment of our existence. The man who has lived the most is not he who has counted the most years but he who has most felt life.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The goal of all life is death.
—Sigmund Freud
“The love of Jesus is the source of salvation.
He loves,
he looks,
he touches us,
we live.”
— Charles Spurgeon
Praise ye the Lord, for it is good to sing praises unto our God. It is profitable and advantageous. It is health to the mind. The soul is greatly bettered and advantaged by it. It is an exercise that naturally tends to the spiritual life, to strengthen, confirm and increase it.
—Jonathan Edwards
Praise ye the Lord, for it is good to sing praises unto our God. It is profitable and advantageous. It is health to the mind. The soul is greatly bettered and advantaged by it. It is an exercise that naturally tends to the spiritual life, to strengthen, confirm and increase it.
—Jonathan Edwards
In order to live by its own law, a bird must fly, a snake must crawl, a fish must swim, and a man must love. Therefore, if instead of loving people a man does evil to them, he behaves as strangely as a bird that tries to swim or a fish that tries to fly.
—Leo Tolstoy
A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
—Sigmund Freud
Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
—Nikolai Gogol
There’s no kind of external organization of the world, no sort of external laws and regulations that can change the life of the world; only the inner effort of each individual can.
—Leo Tolstoy
Live so that you neither fear death nor desire it.
—Leo Tolstoy
“[…]the precepts of the Lord Jesus are tender and gracious, and bring us joy and life.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“The promise of harvest gives joy to the earth. Rob not your Lord of the sheaves which he deserves to gather from your heart and life; but believe his Word, rest upon it, and rejoice in it, realizing that his words of promise are meant to bring you great joy.”
– Charles Spurgeon
The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one’s life. – C.S. Lewis
But youth has a future. The closer he came to graduation, the more his heart beat. He said to himself: “This is still not life, this is only the preparation for life.
—Nikolai Gogol
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
—Voltaire
If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
He who listens attentively, questions rationally, answers calmly and stops talking when he has nothing more to say is in command of the qualities that are most needed in life. Johann Lavater
—Leo Tolstoy
If you simply talk to a person and look clearly into his eyes, you’ll feel that he’s related to you and that you’ve known him for a long time. Why? Because that which gives us life is the same in you and in him and in all people.
—Leo Tolstoy