One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be ‘happy’ is not included in the plan of ‘creation.’
—Sigmund Freud
Christ is the joy of the soul, and if the soul be rejoiced and filled with divine light, such joy no man can take away; whatever outward misery there be, the Spirit will sustain it.
—Jonathan Edwards
If Christ is pleased to send forth his Spirit to manifest his love, and speaks friendly to the soul, it will support it even in the the greatest outward torment that man can inflict.
—Jonathan Edwards
Fear not the face of man, for the LORD, if you go out in his strength, shall be with you, whithersoever you go.
—George Whitefield
All *spiritual* revelation is by Christ. He is ‘the true Light, that lighteth every man that cometh into the world,’ John 1:9.
—John Owen
God does not choose men, because they are excellent; but he makes them excellent, and because he has chosen them.
—Jonathan Edwards
Scarcely have any *wise* men been brought to destruction, but it hath evidently been through their own *folly*; neither hath the wisest counsel of most been one jot better than madness.
—John Owen
Were not men so wise, the world, perhaps, would be more quiet, when the end of wisdom is to keep it in quietness.
—John Owen
*Love unto sinners*. Without this, man is of all creatures most miserable; and there is not the least glimpse of it that can possibly be discovered but in Christ.
—John Owen
Let us not be of the number of those, who desire the honour that cometh of man; but be content with that which cometh from GOD.
—George Whitefield
GOD give me a deep humility, a well-guided zeal, a burning love, and a single eye, and then let men or devils do their worst.
—George Whitefield
We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.
—Nikolai Gogol
The glory and honor of God requires that sometimes there should be tokens of his displeasure against the sins of men here in this world.
—Jonathan Edwards
Few men think, yet all will have opinions. Hence men’s opinions are superficial and confused.
—John Locke
The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its Author, salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure, all sincere; nothing too much; nothing wanting!
—John Locke
The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its Author, salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure, all sincere; nothing too much; nothing wanting!
—John Locke
So that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts themselves.
—John Locke
So that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts themselves.
—John Locke
As if when men, quitting the state of Nature, entered into society, they agreed that all of them but one should be under the restraint of laws; but that he should still retain all the liberty of the state of Nature, increased with power.
—John Locke
As if when men, quitting the state of Nature, entered into society, they agreed that all of them but one should be under the restraint of laws; but that he should still retain all the liberty of the state of Nature, increased with power.
—John Locke
There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
—John Locke
Self righteousness can feed upon doctrines, as well as upon works; and a man may have the heart of a Pharisee, while his head is stored with orthodox notions of the unworthiness of the creature, and the riches of free grace.
—John Newton
Self righteousness can feed upon doctrines, as well as upon works; and a man may have the heart of a Pharisee, while his head is stored with orthodox notions of the unworthiness of the creature, and the riches of free grace.
—John Newton
It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of truth.
—John Locke
Nay, if we may openly speak the truth, and as becomes one man to another, neither Pagan nor Mahometan, nor Jew, ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the commonwealth because of his religion.
—John Locke
Governments must be left again to the old way of being made by contrivance and the consent of men.
—John Locke
This makes it lawful for a man to kill a thief.
—John Locke
Seek to make thy course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.
—John Locke
I think I may say, that of all the men we meet with, nine parts of ten are what they are, good or evil, useful or not, by their education.
—John Locke
Let not men think there is no truth but in the sciences that they study, or the books that they read. To prejudge other men’s notions before we have looked into them is not to shew their darkness, but to put out our own eyes.
—John Locke