6 benefits to hearing the Word of God:
1. It exercises our humility.
2. It instructs our faith.
3. It lights us up with joy.
4. It inflames us with love.
5. It inspires us with zeal.
6. It lifts us up towards heaven.
— Charles Spurgeon
May he enlighten me more and more, to know and feel the mystery of his electing, soul-transforming love.
—George Whitefield
There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.
—Vincent Van Gogh
“It seems to me a blessed privilege for us to be permitted to love one so great as God.”
— Charles Spurgeon
We pray with boldness.
Not the boldness of the rebel who carries a brazen front in the presence of his offended king, but the boldness of the child who fears because he loves, and loves because he fears.
— Charles Spurgeon
I will press forward and labour to know God better, and love him more, assuredly I may, because God will give his Holy Spirit to them that ask him, and the Holy Ghost will shed abroad the love of God in the heart.
—William Wilberforce
If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.
—Vincent Van Gogh
Free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having. – C.S. Lewis
Love the animals, love the plants, love everything.
If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things.
Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day.
And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Love the animals, love the plants, love everything.
If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things.
Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day.
And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
There’s nothing wrong with loving your family or your nation, and this happens with everyone. But it’s only harmless as long as you do no evil to others because of your love for your family or nation.
—Leo Tolstoy
Never to go on trips with anyone you do not love.
—Ernest Hemingway
“Be thankful for the thorns and thistles which keep you from being in love with this world.”
— Charles Spurgeon
Above all, don’t lie to yourself.
The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others.
And having no respect he ceases to love.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Above all, don’t lie to yourself.
The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others.
And having no respect he ceases to love.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Love people and animals and you will experience overwhelming joy from being with them.
—Leo Tolstoy
Love follows knowledge.
—Thomas Aquinas
Christ manifests and evidences his love to his saints in a *way of bounty*, – in that rich, plentiful provision he makes for them.
—John Owen
To write a love letter, you have to start, without knowing, what you want to say, and end, without knowing what you have said.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Who, being loved, is poor?
—Oscar Wilde
Propounding peace and love without practical or institutional engagement is delusion, not virtue.
—Georg Hegel
“Paul took care not to steal an atom of the glory for himself,
but he ascribed all to the power of him who loved him and gave himself for him.”
— Charles Spurgeon
My love for imaginary objects and my facility in lending myself to them ended by disillusioning me with everything around me, and determined that love of solitude which I have retained ever since that time.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
But men love abstract reasoning and neat systematization so much that they think nothing of distorting the truth, closing their eyes and ears to contrary evidence to preserve their logical constructions.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
—Henry David Thoreau
What is done for effect, is seen to be done for effect; what is done for love, is felt to be done for love.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.
—Vincent Van Gogh
If you understand that your central task in life is love, then when you interact with someone you won’t think about how he might be useful to you, but rather how you might be useful to him. Just do this and you’ll succeed in everything far more than if you worry about yourself.
—Leo Tolstoy
“[…]go direct to Christ for truth, and you will preach it strongly, honestly, openly, positively, but you will always preach it with love.”
– Charles Spurgeon
The things that we love tell us what we are.
—Thomas Aquinas