I longed to make some returns to God; but found I had nothing to return: I could only rejoice, that God had done the work himself; and that none in heaven or earth might pretend to share the honour of it with him.
—David Brainerd
The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.
“There will be bear markets about twice every 10 years and recessions twice every 10-12 years but nobody has been able to predict them reliably.
So the best thing to do is buy when shares are thoroughly depressed and that means when other people are selling.”
— John Templeton
There’s no reason to pity a person if he dies or loses his money, if he has no home or property, because none of those things belong to man. But there’s reason for pity if a person loses his one true possession, his highest blessing: his ability to love.
—Leo Tolstoy
In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
There may be an arsenal of weapons, but nobody ever uses them.
—Laozi
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
—William Shakespeare
None of us can know how poor we are in comparison with what we might have been if we had lived habitually nearer to God in prayer.
I know CHRIST is all in all. Man is nothing: he hath a free will to go to hell, but none to go to heaven, till GOD worketh in him to will and to do after his good pleasure.
—George Whitefield
I don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.
—Oscar Wilde
“There is nobody who can preach the gospel like the man who has experienced its power.”
– Charles Spurgeon
So the problem is not so much to see what nobody has yet seen, as to think what nobody has yet thought concerning that which everybody sees.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
—Søren Kierkegaard
Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations…entangling alliances with none.
—Thomas Jefferson
Countless are, as the sand in the sea, the deep desires of men, and none resembles the other, and all of them, whether shameful, or great, in the beginning are obedient, but later become terrible masters over him.
—Nikolai Gogol
There’s no reason to pity a person if he dies or loses his money, if he has no home or property, because none of those things belong to man. But there’s reason for pity if a person loses his one true possession, his highest blessing: his ability to love.
—Leo Tolstoy
When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them.
—Plato
The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.
—René Descartes
A friend to all is a friend to none.
—Aristotle
If you truly fear God, you need fear none beside.
—John Wesley
Some of us are like Peter, Silver and gold have I none. But we have other things: for example, books. Am I sharing my books and what I read in them? Am I sharing every joy I can?
—Amy Carmichael
I think I do not desire to live one minute for any thing that earth can afford. Oh, that I could live for none but God, till my dying moment!
—David Brainerd
I longed to make some returns to God; but found I had nothing to return: I could only rejoice, that God had done the work himself; and that none in heaven or earth might pretend to share the honour of it with him.
—David Brainerd
Some who may be drawn to commit sin yet are none of the servants of sin, because they do heartily beg the assistance of grace to keep them from sin: Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins, says the psalmist, let them not have dominion over me (Ps. 19:13).
—John Flavel
There are men and women who have a sorrow of such a character that they cannot confide it to any human ear; and they say: “Nobody knows it. Nobody sympathizes with me.” Yes, there is One who knows, and He sympathizes with you—God.
—R. A. Torrey
There is no perfect church. If you wait until you find a perfect church before you unite with any, you will unite with none, and thus you will belong to a church in which you are the only member, and that is the most imperfect church of all.
—R. A. Torrey
The church is made up men and women, imperfect men and women, and consequently it is an imperfect institution, but none the less it is of divine origin and God loves it, and every believer should realize that he belongs to it and should openly take his place in it.
—R. A. Torrey
Do you say, “Have you never sinned?” Alas, I have. Sinned so deeply that none of you will ever know, thank God. But thank God still more, when Jesus Christ was nailed to yonder Cross of Calvary, all my sins were settled.
—R. A. Torrey
“None but God could have had patience with some of us!”
– Charles Spurgeon