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
We must meditate daily, prayerfully, profoundly upon the Word if we are to maintain power. Many a man has run dry through its neglect.
Psalm 1:1-2
—R. A. Torrey
If the devil cannot make a man feel that he is good enough without being saved, then he will tell him he is so bad the Lord will have nothing to do with him.
—D. L. Moody
Spiritual acts for tyrants are worse than bodily ones. A thief will be pardoned sooner than a righteous man who is strong in spirit.
—Hryhorii Skovoroda
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
“When the heart is fully influenced by God’s Spirit, then the will and the intellect, the memory and the imagination, and everything else which makes up the inward man, comes under cheerful allegiance to the King of kings.”
– Charles Spurgeon