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There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal. – C.S. Lewis

Nothing will beautify your life and the life of others like establishing kindness as a habit.

—Leo Tolstoy

The world is nothing but a great desire to live and a great dissatisfaction with living.

—Heraclitus

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau

If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up.

Moreover, nothing then would be immoral, everything would be lawful, even cannibalism.

—Fyodor Dostoevsky

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

I’ve been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easily.

—Sigmund Freud

Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours. – C.S. Lewis

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

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

—Oscar Wilde

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

—Blaise Pascal

Childhood has its own way of seeing, thinking, and feeling, and nothing is more foolish than to try to substitute ours for theirs.

—Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.

—Nikolai Gogol

Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done. – C.S. Lewis

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

—Voltaire

“Preach Christ, and Christ, and Christ, and Christ, and nothing else but Christ.”

Charles Spurgeon

Freedom of speech is of no use to a man who has nothing to say and freedom of worship is of no use to a man who has lost his God.

—Franklin D. Roosevelt

He who listens attentively, questions rationally, answers calmly and stops talking when he has nothing more to say is in command of the qualities that are most needed in life. Johann Lavater

—Leo Tolstoy

When the outlook is bright, bring it before their eyes; but tell them nothing when the situation is gloomy.

—Sun Tzu

We call suffering evil, but nothing unites people through love more than suffering.

—Leo Tolstoy

*The saints delight in Christ*; he is their joy, their crown, their rejoicing, their life, food, health, strength, desire, righteousness, salvation, blessedness: without him they have nothing; in him they shall find all things.

—John Owen

CHRIST’s love will let nothing pluck us out of his hands. However, let us constantly watch and pray, that we enter not into temptation.

—George Whitefield

I love those that thunder out the word. The Christian world is in a deep sleep. Nothing but a loud voice can awaken them out of it.

—George Whitefield

Nothing will so much enforce your arguments as a life exactly conformable to the holy JESUS.

—George Whitefield

There is no remedy but in Jesus Christ; there is nothing else will give you true quietness.

—Jonathan Edwards

The law reveals no patience or forbearance in God; it speaks, as to the issue of transgressions, nothing but sword and fire, had not God interposed by an act of sovereignty.

—John Owen

Nothing more habitually reconciles a child of God to the thought of death than the wearisomeness of…warfare with sin and temptation.

—John Newton

The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its Author, salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure, all sincere; nothing too much; nothing wanting!

—John Locke

The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its Author, salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure, all sincere; nothing too much; nothing wanting!

—John Locke