If a person believes his strength is in his physical rather than his spiritual life, he’s like a bird that walks from place to place on its pathetic little legs and doesn’t use its wings to fly where it needs to go.
—Leo Tolstoy
But, it will be said, Christianity is a life, not a doctrine. The assertion is often made, and it has an appearance of godliness. But it is radically false, and to detect its falsity one does not even need to be a Christian.
—J. Gresham Machen
But, it will be said, Christianity is a life, not a doctrine. The assertion is often made, and it has an appearance of godliness. But it is radically false, and to detect its falsity one does not even need to be a Christian.
—J. Gresham Machen
Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
—Carl Jung
I don’t remember who exactly, but some deep heart expert said that the surest measurement of friendship is money. And his statement is fair. A true, true friendship that is only expressed in critical, difficult cases, and even it demands this cold yardstick. The most lively, animated language of friendship is money. And the greater the need, the more sincere the friendship, driving away this hungry witch.
—Taras Shevchenko
God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want. – C.S. Lewis
We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself..
We know nothing of man, far too little.
His psyche should be studied because we are the origin of all coming evil.
—Carl Jung
We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself..
We know nothing of man, far too little.
His psyche should be studied because we are the origin of all coming evil.
—Carl Jung
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.
—Sigmund Freud
Prosperity may cause us to rise in the world, but affliction is needful to raise us above the world.
—John Newton
I need solitude for my writing; not ‘like a hermit’ – that wouldn’t be enough – but like a dead man.
—Franz Kafka
Wise men don’t need to prove their point; men who need to prove their point aren’t wise.
—Laozi
Intelligence is based on how efficient a species became at doing the things they need to survive.
—Charles Darwin
Men need some kind of external activity, because they are inactive within.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
If force compels obedience, there is no need to invoke a duty to obey, and if force ceases to compel obedience, there is no longer any obligation.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
That which we need the most, will be found where we least want to look.
—Carl Jung
A cardinal doctrine of modern liberalism is that the world’s evil may be overcome by the world’s good; no help is thought to be needed from outside the world.
—J. Gresham Machen
[F]or contemporary judgment does not recognize that much depth of soul is needed to light up the picture drawn from contemptible life and elevate it into a pearl of creation.
—Nikolai Gogol
A new and more powerful proclamation of the law is perhaps the most pressing need of the hour…
—J. Gresham Machen
Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We’ve been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.
—Seneca
“Above all, we need often to go to Christ, to get from his hand a fresh stock of that gospel provision which we are afterwards to dispense to the people in his name.”
– Charles Spurgeon
It is not theft, properly speaking, to take secretly and use another’s property in a case of extreme need: because that which he takes for the support of his life becomes his own property by reason of that need.
—Thomas Aquinas
Only delusions and lies require artificial support. Truth can stand alone. Therefore the true word has no need of superficial, solemn ceremonies. Only lies need such devices.
—Leo Tolstoy
As for me, I am mean: that means that I need the suffering of others to exist. A flame. A flame in their hearts. When I am all alone, I am extinguished.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
Our riches, being in our brains, die with us… Unless of course someone chops off our head, in which case, we won’t need them anyway.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Do not hold on to possessions you no longer need.
—Miyamoto Musashi
Effort is needed for every act of self-restraint, but the restraint of your tongue requires the most effort. It’s also the most necessary.
—Leo Tolstoy
“[Christ’s] face is the sun, and his countenance scatters those health-giving beams, and nurturing warmths, and perfecting influences which are needful for maturing the saints in all the sweetness of grace to the glory of God.”
– Charles Spurgeon
Philosophy calls for simple living, not for doing penance, and the simple way of life need not be a crude one.
—Seneca
But I need solitude–which is to say, recovery, return to myself, the breath of a free, light, playful air.
—Friedrich Nietzsche