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
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
We only truly live when we live for others. It sounds strange, but try it and you’ll see that it’s true.
—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
I, though hell-deserving, am a living witness of his good providence; having nothing, I possess all things
—George Whitefield
If a person only thinks about himself and seeks his own benefit in everything, he’ll never be happy. If you want to live for yourself, live for others. Seneca
—Leo Tolstoy
The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
If the world has nothing to say against you, it is a pretty sure sign that God has not much to say for you, for if you do seek to live unto Christ Jesus, you must go against the current of the world.
—D. L. Moody
It is a blessed thing to live upon God. Did ever any trust in him and was forsaken?
—George Whitefield
My religion is to love all living things. Ibrahim ibn Ya’qub al-Tartushi
—Leo Tolstoy
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
All you need to do is abandon established customs & superstitions & look at the position of every person who lives under a government, whether it be a despotic or the most democratic, & you’ll be horrified at the degree of slavery in which people live while imagining they’re free
—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
The more a person lives for his soul rather than his body, the more he feels his unity with all living beings.
—Leo Tolstoy
Yes, thank God, he has conquered Death and the grave; and you can shout now, “O grave, where is thy victory!” He went down into the grave and conquered it, and came up out of it; and now he says, “Because I live, ye shall live also.”
—D. L. Moody
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
Cast away every thing from you that favours of the lust of the eye and pride of life. Be quick to hear, slow to speak, and let your conversation always be seasoned with grace.
—George Whitefield
“Preach Christ’s life as much as you will, but never apart from his death.
For it is by his blood that we are redeemed.”
— Charles Spurgeon
The manner in which Epictetus, Montaigne, and Salomon de Tultie wrote, is the most usual, the most suggestive, the most remembered, and the oftener quoted; because it is entirely composed of thoughts born from the common talk of life.
—Blaise Pascal