Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
—Blaise Pascal
Knowledge is power—so much we can understand, at least to a certain extent. All knowing is a triumph of the spirit over matter, a subjection of the earth to the lordship of man. But that knowledge should be life—who can understand that?
—Herman Bavinck
People desire to make God a dead God, in order to be able to deal with him according to their pleasure. But the Holy Scripture calls to man: You have gone astray; God exists. He is the true God; he lives, now and forever.
—Herman Bavinck
Thus a man is worth more than the whole world.
—Herman Bavinck
The study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.
—Thomas Aquinas
Intensity of prayer is no criterion of its effectiveness. A man may throw himself on his face and sob out his troubles to the Lord & yet have no intention to obey the commandments of Christ.
—AW Tozer
All things else being equal, the praying man is less likely to think wrong than the man who neglects to pray.
—AW Tozer
The spiritual man would rather be useful than famous & would rather serve than be served. And all this must be by the operation of the Holy Spirit within him. No man can become spiritual by himself. Only the free Spirit can make a man spiritual.
—AW Tozer
Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
—Cicero
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities… still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
—Charles Darwin
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.
—Ernest Hemingway
Men who do not pray have no right to direct church affairs.
—AW Tozer
Men are more moral than they think and far more immoral than they can imagine.
The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
—Sigmund Freud
If you want to pray strategically, in a way which would please God, pray that God might raise up men who see the beauty of the Lord our God & would begin to preach it & hold it out to people, instead of offering peace of mind, deliverance from cigarettes, a better job & cottage.
—A. W. Tozer
I remind you that it is characteristic of the natural man to keep himself so busy with unimportant trifles that he is able to avoid the settling of the most important matters relating to life & existence.
—AW Tozer
Since the fall of man the earth has been a disaster area & everyone lives with a critical emergency. Nothing is normal. Everything is wrong & everyone is wrong until made right by the redeeming work of Christ & the effective operation of the Holy Spirit.
—AW Tozer
A knowledge of God is available to man only when, and in so far as, God freely chooses to reveal Himself.
—Herman Bavinck
To acquire knowledge, Scripture refers man not to his own reason but to God’s revelation in all his works. Lift up your eyes, and see the one who has created all things; [lift them up] to the teaching and the testimony; otherwise, they shall perish.
—Herman Bavinck
Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.
—Albert Einstein
To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing.
—Isaac Newton
As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.
—Isaac Newton
I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.
—Blaise Pascal
Lapsed man is not only deep in misery, but grossly ignorant, both that he is so, and how to recover himself from it: Sin has left him at once senseless of his state, and at a perfect loss about the true remedy.
—John Flavel
Most men need patience to die, but a saint that understands what death admits him to should rather need patience to live.
—John Flavel
Why should you be enemies to your own peace? To read over the evidences of God’s love to your souls as a man does a book that he intends to refute? Why do you study to find evasions, to turn off these comforts that are due to you?
—John Flavel
The conscience men make of secret as well as of public duties will tell them what their hearts and graces are, true or false.
—John Flavel
Strive to be Christ-like, if ever you would be lovely in the eyes of God and man. Certainly, my brethren, it is only the Spirit of Christ within you, and the beauty of Christ upon you, which can make you lovely persons.
—John Flavel
Can you say, Christians, that you are willing to have your mistakes directed by God or men, your corruptions discovered, anything that helps to the pulling up the roots of corruption? Surely thus it must be if you will be for Christ, all faithful admonitions and afflictions.
—John Flavel
The Holy Spirit can take a man whose mind is blind to the truth of God, whose will is at enmity with God, whose affections are corrupt and vile, and transform that man, impart to him a new nature, so that he thinks God’s thoughts, love what God loves, and hate what God hates.
—R. A. Torrey
There is only one ground upon which man may meet God with joy and not with despair. That ground is the atoning blood of Jesus Christ.
—R. A. Torrey