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If you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you’ll be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life. You will be evading your own capacities, your own possibilities.

Abraham Maslow

One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.

— Abraham Maslow

A person who doesn’t recognize the beneficence of suffering has not yet begun to live a rational, real life.

—Leo Tolstoy

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

God by His Spirit must change the hearts of the people, if they are to walk in His ways, and keep His ordinances and statutes. The Spirit of the Lord alone works the true, spiritual, and moral life.

—Herman Bavinck

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

Do what your body demands of you—attain glory, honor, wealth—and your life will be a hell. Do what your soul demands of you—attain humility, mercy, love—and you’ll have no need of any heaven. Heaven will be in your soul.

—Leo Tolstoy

Do what your body demands of you—attain glory, honor, wealth—and your life will be a hell. Do what your soul demands of you—attain humility, mercy, love—and you’ll have no need of any heaven. Heaven will be in your soul.

—Leo Tolstoy

You might be in prison, sick, or deprived of all possibility of external action, but your inner life continues: you can blame, condemn, envy and hate others, and you can replace these feelings with good ones. Every minute of your life is yours, and no one can take it from you.

—Leo Tolstoy

You might be in prison, sick, or deprived of all possibility of external action, but your inner life continues: you can blame, condemn, envy and hate others, and you can replace these feelings with good ones. Every minute of your life is yours, and no one can take it from you.

—Leo Tolstoy

No sooner does the soul begin to feel the life of a promise warming his heart, relieving, cherishing, supporting, delivering from fear, entanglements, or troubles, but it may, it ought to know that the Holy Ghost is there

—John Owen

No sooner does the soul begin to feel the life of a promise warming his heart, relieving, cherishing, supporting, delivering from fear, entanglements, or troubles, but it may, it ought to know that the Holy Ghost is there

—John Owen

Morality of itself, dear Sir, will never carry us to heaven; no, Jesus Christ is the way, the truth and the life.

—George Whitefield

“Where there is no love there will be no life; living lambs are not to be fed by dead men.”

– Charles Spurgeon

Salvation doesn’t come from rituals, mysteries, or the revelations of this or that religion, but from a clear awareness of the meaning of your life.

—Leo Tolstoy

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

Only to live, to live and live!

Life, whatever it may be!

—Fyodor Dostoevsky

The more a person lives for others, the freer and more joyful is his life. The more he lives for himself alone, the more his life is constricted and painful.

—Leo Tolstoy

“The Lord Jesus himself is the Good Shepherd who laid down his life for the sheep, the Great Shepherd who is brought again from the dead, and the Chief Shepherd under whom he has appointed shepherds to watch for the souls of men.”

– Charles Spurgeon

“The Lord Jesus himself is the Good Shepherd who laid down his life for the sheep, the Great Shepherd who is brought again from the dead, and the Chief Shepherd under whom he has appointed shepherds to watch for the souls of men.”

– Charles Spurgeon

If a person understands his life is in his soul and not his body, you can put him in chains or lock him in iron locks and he’ll still remain free.

—Leo Tolstoy

Are we forever condemned to live the sordid life of utilitarianism?

—J. Gresham Machen

A person can live a good life only if he understands that he’s a spiritual being, united with all beings and with Everything. If a person understands himself merely as a physical being, he’ll live only for himself, and someone who lives only for himself cannot live a good life.

—Leo Tolstoy

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.

—Socrates

Death may therefore have come into the world by a man; but the resurrection from the dead came also by a man (1 Cor. 15:21). Christ is Himself the resurrection and the life ( John 11:25).

—Herman Bavinck

If there’s life after death then it’s something we can’t imagine.

—Leo Tolstoy

What an amazing inconsistency: the death penalty and war are considered essential conditions of life by people who call themselves Christians.

—Leo Tolstoy

In order to live a good life you have to place truth above everything else, so that you don’t fear speaking the truth even if the truth harms you as you speak.

—Leo Tolstoy

“If ye then be risen with Christ, live according to your risen nature, for your life is hid with Christ in God.”

– Charles Spurgeon

He is to *sprinkle* that blood upon their souls; he is to *create* the holiness in them that they long after; he is to be himself in them a *well* of water springing up to eternal life.

—John Owen