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
“Let all men see that you are risen. So live that there can be no more doubt about your spiritual resurrection than there was about Christ’s literal resurrection.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“Christ’s humble birth was but the prelude to a life still more humble, and a death even more abased.”
— Charles Spurgeon
You can’t know it, but you can be it, at ease in your own life.
—Laozi
“Let us spend our risen life on earth as Jesus spent his,— in a greater seclusion from the world and in greater nearness to heaven than ever.”
– Charles Spurgeon
Are you tried by your sin?
Jesus rose for your justification.
Does Satan accuse?
Jesus rose to be your advocate.
Do infirmities hinder?
The living Christ will show himself strong on your behalf.
Do you dread death?
Jesus has vanquished the last enemy.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“Our Jesus lives, and because he lives we shall live also, world without end.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“Farewell, thou deadly love of sin; we have done with thee! Farewell, dead world, corrupt world; we have done with thee! Christ has raised us. Christ has given us eternal life.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“So that by virtue of our rising in Christ we have received life and have become the subjects of a wondrous change,— old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”
– Charles Spurgeon
Lead your life so that you neither fear death nor desire it.
—Leo Tolstoy
An unexamined life is not worth living.
—Socrates
My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.
—Charles Dickens
Christ calls, and they come forth, the call being accompanied with life and power.
—John Owen
The happy man in this life needs friends.
—Thomas Aquinas
[Christianity] bases upon the Bible both its thinking and its life. Liberalism… is founded upon the shifting emotions of sinful men.
—J. Gresham Machen
“If ye then be risen with Christ ye walk in newness of life, while the world abideth in death.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“Christ is your life; such a life as you never knew before, nor could have known apart from him.”
– Charles Spurgeon
Asking God to send you blessings in this life is like sitting at a spring and asking the spring to quench your thirst. You’ve been given every possible blessing. You only need to be able to use them.
—Leo Tolstoy
During life all has gone well with me, so far as God has ordered matters, and all the evil has been the result of my own follies.
—William Wilberforce
“To live for a political party is unworthy of a man who professes to be a Christian.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“Now, beloved, you are new creatures, the produce of a second birth, begotten again in Christ Jesus unto newness of life.”
– Charles Spurgeon
The meaning of life is that it stops.
—Franz Kafka
Let us cast off the graveclothes of our former lusts, and wear the garments of light and life.
— Charles Spurgeon
The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.
—Charles Dickens
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
—Albert Einstein
Every man with a little leisure and enough money for railway tickets, every man, indeed, who knows how to read, has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.
—Aldous Huxley
“Every first day of the week we should meditate upon the rising of our Lord, and seek to enter into fellowship with him in his risen life.”
– Charles Spurgeon
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking
—Marcus Aurelius