I was born in 1894, which I still regret. I should have been born in 1904. I would be ten years younger now.
The most terrible thing during the retreat was the crying of the women. When I think of retreat now, I see long, long roads, and numerous villages, and suburbs, and everywhere women's unspeakable weeping. Ukraine cried.
— Oleksandr Dovzhenko
The stone that was rolled before Christ’s tomb might appropriately be called the philosopher’s stone because its removal gave not only the pharisees but, now for 1800 years, the philosophers so much to think about.
—Søren Kierkegaard
My God shall supply all your need according to His riches (Phil. 4:19). We lay those words before our Lord and we say to Him very earnestly, And now, O Lord, do as You have said.
—Amy Carmichael
I have sadly neglected the cultivation of my natural talents. Let me now attend to it, imploring the divine blessing. I will form a plan of study and exercise, having a special reference to the faults of my intellect, whether natural or superinduced.
—William Wilberforce
So let us praise Him now, though it may be from under the harrow, from the depths, from anywhere. We shall never have the chance again to love Him in the peace of a great contentment, with the word ringing in our ear, And blessed is he whosoever shall not be offended in Me.
—Amy Carmichael
Yes, thank God, he has conquered Death and the grave; and you can shout now, “O grave, where is thy victory!” He went down into the grave and conquered it, and came up out of it; and now he says, “Because I live, ye shall live also.”
—D. L. Moody
O deeps unfathomed as the sea,
O heights that reach beyond the high,
O Love that lavished all on me,
I know Thee now, I know Thee nigh.
O Love that is not here or there,
But like Thine own eternity
Is here, is there, is everywhere,
I yield, I love, I worship Thee.
—Amy Carmichael
Yes, thank God, he has conquered Death and the grave; and you can shout now, “O grave, where is thy victory!” He went down into the grave and conquered it, and came up out of it; and now he says, “Because I live, ye shall live also.”
—D. L. Moody
Now, this *bunch* of hyssop, wherein the blood of purification was prepared for the sprinkling of the unclean, is (unto us) the free promises of Christ.
—John Owen
My learning does not help me now; neither does my Dogmatics; faith alone saves me.
—Herman Bavinck
Never put off a good deed if you can do it now, because death doesn’t take into account whether you’ve done what you should have or not.
—Leo Tolstoy
If you die in your sins, there is not in the Bible one ray of hope to show that there will be opportunity to repent hereafter. Now is the accepted time of salvation.
—D. L. Moody
“Now, beloved, you are new creatures, the produce of a second birth, begotten again in Christ Jesus unto newness of life.”
– Charles Spurgeon
External thinks are not the problem. It’s your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now.
—Marcus Aurelius
Now I can look at you in peace; I don’t eat you any more.
—Franz Kafka
“Baptism is a sweet emblem of my death to all the world!
May I, from now on, live only for Jesus!”
— Charles Spurgeon
“The God who can take away the spots from the leopard, and the blackness from the Ethiopian, can also remove the evil lines which now deface the heart.”
– Charles Spurgeon
Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.
—Pablo Picasso
While everything in the Old Testament was in preparation for Christ, everything now stems from him. Christ is the turning point of time. The promise made to Abraham extends now out to all nations.
—Herman Bavinck
God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want. – C.S. Lewis
I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
—Thomas Jefferson
[Jesus] was conscious of standing at the turning-point of the ages, when what had never been was now to come to be.
—J. Gresham Machen
I alone seemed in thy world erroneous to dissent from all: my sect thou seest, now learn too late how few sometimes may know, when thousands err.
—John Milton
“All that puzzles us now will become plain to us in the light of the Lamb.”
— Charles Spurgeon
If I am worth anything later, I am worth something now. For wheat is wheat, even if people think it is a grass in the beginning.
—Vincent Van Gogh
“If your religion does not make you holy, it will damn you as surely as you are now alive.”
– Charles Spurgeon
Instead of marrying in order to increase the number of children it would be far simpler to support the millions of children now dying everywhere.
—Leo Tolstoy
The stone that was rolled before Christ’s tomb might appropriately be called the philosopher’s stone because its removal gave not only the pharisees but, now for 1800 years, the philosophers so much to think about.
—Søren Kierkegaard