We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.
—Sigmund Freud
Your gifts lie in the place where your values, passions and strengths meet. Discovering that place is the first step toward sculpting your masterpiece, Your Life.
—Michelangelo
One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away.
—Stephen Hawking
One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away.
—Stephen Hawking
If a person believes his strength is in his physical rather than his spiritual life, he’s like a bird that walks from place to place on its pathetic little legs and doesn’t use its wings to fly where it needs to go.
—Leo Tolstoy
“Let him be assured that the Father loved him so much as to give his only begotten Son to die that he might live through him, and he must love God and hate evil.”
– Charles Spurgeon
I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach.
—Charles Dickens
But, it will be said, Christianity is a life, not a doctrine. The assertion is often made, and it has an appearance of godliness. But it is radically false, and to detect its falsity one does not even need to be a Christian.
—J. Gresham Machen
But, it will be said, Christianity is a life, not a doctrine. The assertion is often made, and it has an appearance of godliness. But it is radically false, and to detect its falsity one does not even need to be a Christian.
—J. Gresham Machen
“If I know God, and yet live for my own profit, for my own honor, for my own comfort, then I do not glorify God as God.”
— Charles Spurgeon
Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
—Voltaire
Christianity is founded upon the Bible. It bases upon the Bible both its thinking and its life. Liberalism on the other hand is founded upon the shifting emotions of sinful men.
—J. Gresham Machen
“Even though you cannot be as holy as you want to be, yet if the ways of holiness are your pleasure, if they are the very element in which you live as much as the fish lives in the sea, then you are the subject of a very wonderful change of heart.”
– Charles Spurgeon
I will not live without love.
—Vincent Van Gogh
Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
—Mark Twain
Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
—Oscar Wilde
“Baptism is a sweet emblem of my death to all the world!
May I, from now on, live only for Jesus!”
— Charles Spurgeon
I cannot close my eyes to the fact that, by eating meat, I demand the murder of living beings to satisfy my luxurious lifestyle and my taste.
—Leo Tolstoy
“Married life is not all sugar,
but grace in the heart will keep away most of the sours.”
— Charles Spurgeon
Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.
—Voltaire
“Because God is the living God, he can hear.
Because he is a loving God, he will hear.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“The devil, the world, and the temptations of life, would soon erase out of the heart all that God had written there if he did not create it anew with the faculty of holding fast that which is good.”
– Charles Spurgeon
Come! you presence will either give me life or kill me with pleasure.
—Voltaire
Love is a life-giving fire in the human soul, and everything created by man under the influence of this feeling is marked by the seal of life and poetry.
—Taras Shevchenko
All has gone to rest, and I don’t know whether I’m alive or will live or whether I’m rushing like this through the world for I’m not longer weeping or laughing.
—Taras Shevchenko
Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. If you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away.
—Stephen Hawking
With respect to the death of Christ, there is a great difference betwixt one man and another; he laid down his life for the sheep, he prayed for them, and not for the world.
—John Flavel
I think computer viruses should count as life.. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.
—Stephen Hawking
The gospel is gospel, good news for all creatures, not a proclamation of destruction and death, but of resurrection and life.
—Herman Bavinck
The whole of life, including business and all of social relations, must be obedient to the law of love.
—J. Gresham Machen