God’s rest only means he has stopped creating new things. He is now actively working to preserve the world he fashioned.
—Herman Bavinck
Oh (methought) if God’s people knew me, as God knows, they would not think so highly of my zeal and resolution for God, as perhaps now they do!
—David Brainerd
But, oh, to love and praise God more, to please him for ever! this my soul panted after, and even now pants for while I write.
—David Brainerd
If yet your heart hangs back (from thoughts of death), consider the great advantage you will have by death above all that ever you enjoyed on earth. For your communion with God, the time of perfecting that is now come.
—John Flavel
Many a man that shines and glitters now on the platform will soon be forgotten, but the man or woman who does anything for Christ will never be forgotten.
—D. L. Moody
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
—Henry David Thoreau
There’s no governmental system that can correct evil as long as people remain as they are now.
—Leo Tolstoy
Death waits for no one and nothing. Therefore, there’s nothing more important in this world for you than what you’re doing right now.
—Leo Tolstoy
“You have now no liberty to serve another, you are the sworn soldiers of the Crucified.”
“Now I know that my Lord Jesus loves me, and that he will never do anything else but love me.”
– Charles Spurgeon
Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won’t last forever. We must take it or leave it. – C.S. Lewis
Ye who now give the reins to your carnal opportunities. The present state that you are ready to imagine to be, all will soon pass away, and there are vast alterations coming. That are at hand, even at the door.
—Jonathan Edwards
Ye who now give the reins to your carnal opportunities. The present state that you are ready to imagine to be, all will soon pass away, and there are vast alterations coming. That are at hand, even at the door.
—Jonathan Edwards
I am now reading the book of martyrs. They make me blush to think how little I suffer for CHRIST’s sake.
—George Whitefield
Now, Christ delights exceedingly in his saints: ‘As the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee,’ Is 50:5.
—John Owen
Now may He who from the dead
Brought the Shepherd of the sheep,
JESUS CHRIST, our King and Head,
All our souls in safety keep!
—John Newton
Since I came to understand the gospel of Jesus Christ, the great mystery of godliness in His Son, and the dealings of the Father with the Son, the Lord knows now that I abhor sin in secret more than I abhor hell itself.
—Jeremiah Burroughs
Since I came to understand the gospel of Jesus Christ, the great mystery of godliness in His Son, and the dealings of the Father with the Son, the Lord knows now that I abhor sin in secret more than I abhor hell itself.
—Jeremiah Burroughs
The current generation now sees everything clearly, it marvels at the errors, it laughs at the folly of its ancestors, not seeing that this chronicle is all overscored by divine fire, that every letter of it cries out, that from everywhere the piercing finger is pointed at it, at this current generation; but the current generation laughs and presumptuously, proudly begins a series of new errors, at which their descendants will also laugh afterwards.
—Nikolai Gogol