In Christ the very nature of God is discovered to be love and kindness; and that he will exercise the same to sinners, he hath promised, sworn and solemnly engaged himself by covenant.
—John Owen
Amazing, that ever sinners should sit with their Saviour! To what dignity has CHRIST exalted human nature. And how did he do it? Why, by humbling himself. Let us go and do likewise.
—George Whitefield
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
God hath woven into the principles of human nature such a tenderness for their off-spring, that there is little fear that parents should use their power with too much rigour.
—John Locke
Oh, what manner of love, that we, who were like others by nature, should be thus distinguished by grace!
—John Newton
The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.
—John Locke
The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.
—John Locke
The better to understand the nature, manner, and extent of our knowledge, one thing is carefully to be observed concerning the ideas we have; and that is, that some of them are simple and some complex.
—John Locke
The better to understand the nature, manner, and extent of our knowledge, one thing is carefully to be observed concerning the ideas we have; and that is, that some of them are simple and some complex.
—John Locke
Affectation is an awkward and forced imitation of what should be genuine and easy, wanting the Beauty that accompanies what is natural.
—John Locke
Nice privacy! Nothing in life can be sweeter, more charming than solitude, especially in the face of the smiling, blossoming beauty of Mother Nature. Under its sweet magical charm, a person involuntarily plunges into himself and sees God on earth, as the poet says.
—Taras Shevchenko
Despite my sincere love for the beautiful in art and in nature, I feel an irresistible antipathy to philosophies and aesthetics.
—Taras Shevchenko