We’re inseparably united not only with all people, but with all living things.
—Leo Tolstoy
In the end dreams became his life, and his whole life thereafter took a strange turn: one might say he slept while waking and watched while asleep.
—Nikolai Gogol
Wean yourself from using your words to condemn others and you’ll feel an increase in your ability to live in your soul; you’ll feel an increase in life and happiness.
—Leo Tolstoy
Getting used to a life of idleness is worse than all life’s disasters.
—Leo Tolstoy
*The saints delight in Christ*; he is their joy, their crown, their rejoicing, their life, food, health, strength, desire, righteousness, salvation, blessedness: without him they have nothing; in him they shall find all things.
—John Owen
Jesus Christ hath ‘consecrated a new and living way’ (for the saints) ‘through the vail, that is to say, his flesh,’ Heb 10:20. He hath consecrated and set it apart for believers, and for them alone.
—John Owen
A little of true peace, a little of the joys of the manifested love of Christ, and a little of the true and holy hope of eternal life, are enough to compensate for all that toil and weariness, and to erase the remembrance of it from the mind.
—Jonathan Edwards
Nothing will so much enforce your arguments as a life exactly conformable to the holy JESUS.
—George Whitefield
There are plenty and fulness in him; he is like a river that is always flowing, you may live by it for ever, and never be in want.
—Jonathan Edwards
There are a lot of evil people around, and that’s because they have no friends. Communication with people – with mom, grandmother, a dog – is the best thing that happens to you in this life. Not counting shoes and bags, of course.
—Taras Shevchenko
Christ puts strength and a principle of new life into the weary soul that comes to him.
—Jonathan Edwards
But, by the law of faith, faith is allowed to supply the defect of full obedience: and so the believers are admitted to life and immortality, as if they were righteous.
—John Locke
The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.
—John Locke
The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.
—John Locke
So that God, by commanding to subdue, gave authority so far to appropriate: and the condition of human life, which requires labour and materials to work on, necessarily introduces private possessions.
—John Locke
So that God, by commanding to subdue, gave authority so far to appropriate: and the condition of human life, which requires labour and materials to work on, necessarily introduces private possessions.
—John Locke
Our life is a warfare.
—John Newton
Live within your means it will liberate you.
—Peter R. Rose
The life of every person is a fairy tale written with the fingers of God.
—Taras Shevchenko
Nice privacy! Nothing in life can be sweeter, more charming than solitude, especially in the face of the smiling, blossoming beauty of Mother Nature. Under its sweet magical charm, a person involuntarily plunges into himself and sees God on earth, as the poet says.
—Taras Shevchenko
God when he will bring life, brings it out of death, he brings joy out of sorrow, and he brings prosperity out of adversity.
—Jeremiah Burroughs
If you see somebody coming to save your soul, the best thing you can do is run for your life.
—Peter R. Rose
I live, I study. I don’t bow to anyone and I don’t fear anyone but God. It is a great happiness to be a free person.
—Taras Shevchenko