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
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
—Voltaire
Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
—Voltaire
That which is born of, or produced by, the Holy Ghost, in the heart or soul of a man when he is regenerate, that which makes him so, is spirit; in opposition to the flesh, or that enmity which is in us by nature against God.
—John Owen
That which is born of, or produced by, the Holy Ghost, in the heart or soul of a man when he is regenerate, that which makes him so, is spirit; in opposition to the flesh, or that enmity which is in us by nature against God.
—John Owen
Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.
—Voltaire
The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too.
—Vincent Van Gogh
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
—George Orwell
The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.
—Charlie Chaplin
That is really the very height of preaching, when men make themselves nothing and Christ everything.
—D. L. Moody
Man, and in general every rational being, exists as an end in himself, not merely as a means for arbitrary use by this or that will: he must in all his actions, whether they are directed to himself or to other rational beings, always be viewed at the same time as an end.
—Immanuel Kant
“A sense of pardon, of adoption, and of God’s sweet favour both in providence and in grace, must sanctify man.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“No man ever became holy by chance.
There must be resolve, a desire, a panting after obedience to God, or else we shall never have it.”
— Charles Spurgeon
Restlessness is discontent — and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man — and I will show you a failure.
—Thomas Edison
It is quite the fashion to contemptuously contrast the pray-ers with the do-ers – forgetting that in the history of the church the real do-ers have been the pray-ers, that those who have done the most in the church’s history have been, without exception, men and women of prayer.
—R. A. Torrey
“The whole world may reel to and fro like a drunken man but the Rock of Ages stands secure.”
— Charles Spurgeon
Men say they don’t want to give up their freedom. There is no freedom until a man knows the Lord Jesus Christ. A man is slave to sin, to his passions and lusts until Christ snaps the fetters and sets him free.
—D. L. Moody
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
Get beyond love and grief: exist for the good of Man.
—Miyamoto Musashi
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
—Carl Jung
The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God. – C.S. Lewis
The application of Christ, by the work of regeneration, is that which yield unto men all the sensible sweetness and refreshing comforts that they have in Christ, and in all that he has done, suffered, or purchased for sinners.
—John Flavel
The work of the Spirit does not only evidence and manifest that difference which God’s election has made between man and man, but it also makes a twofold difference itself; namely in state and temper? whereby they visibly differ, not only from other men, but also from themselves.
—John Flavel
“The law is fully written on the heart when a man takes pleasure in holiness, and feels a deep pain whenever sin approaches him.”
– Charles Spurgeon
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.
—Henry David Thoreau
“No man who merely skims the book of God can profit from it.
We must dig and mine until we obtain hidden treasure.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“When a man admires himself, he never adores God.”
— Charles Spurgeon
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.
—Voltaire
Nature is truly wonderful. Only man is truly foul.
—Thomas Edison