Our God DOES satisfy. I think sometimes He has to draw us into strange experiences in order that we shall prove Him to the uttermost, for some purpose out of sight.
—Amy Carmichael
Never believe that others can show you the way to a good life and that you can’t find it yourself. Pay attention to the inner voice of your reason alone and not to the orders and suggestions of others.
—Leo Tolstoy
I undertook to conquer myself rather than fortune, and to alter my desires rather than change the order of the world, and to accustom myself to believe that nothing is entirely in our power except our own thoughts.
In order for man to succeed in life, God provided him with two means, education and physical activity.
Not separately, one for the soul and the other for the body, but for the two together.
With these means, man can attain perfection.
—Plato
Those who reason most powerfully and are the most successful at ordering their thoughts so as to make them clear and intelligible will always be best able to persuade others of what they say, even if they speak in the thickest of dialects.
—René Descartes
It is enough that I can understand one thing, clearly and distinctly, without another in order to be certain that one thing is distinct from the other.
—René Descartes
I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
—Immanuel Kant
In order to seek truth, it is necessary once in the course of our life to doubt, as far as possible, of all things.
—René Descartes
I have gained this by philosophy; I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.
—Aristotle
I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.
—Vincent Van Gogh
In whatever class or order of society Christianity prevails, she sets herself to rectify the particular faults, or, if we would speak more distinctly, to counteract the particular mode of selfishness, to which that class is liable.
—William Wilberforce
People desire to make God a dead God, in order to be able to deal with him according to their pleasure. But the Holy Scripture calls to man: You have gone astray; God exists. He is the true God; he lives, now and forever.
—Herman Bavinck
In order for our hearts to find rest in God, naturally we must possess some knowledge of him, for the unknown is unloved.
—Herman Bavinck
Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
—Isaac Newton
Your heart may be kept from shrinking back at [death] by considering the necessity of death, in order to the full fruition of God. Whether you are willing to die or not, I assure you there is no other way to obtain the full satisfaction of your soul and complete its happiness.
—John Flavel
God himself appears in our midst, and, as Author of this order, would have men recognize him as present in his church ~ Calvin
The Son Of God became man in order that He might be our perfect High Priest and be able to lead us to God.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
All history is being directed by God in order to bring his own purpose with respect to the kingdom to pass.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Even when things look anything but divinely ordered, He is still there.
Elisabeth Elliot
Put no faith in salvation through the political order.
Augustine
In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
Augustine
In order to live by its own law, a bird must fly, a snake must crawl, a fish must swim, and a man must love. Therefore, if instead of loving people a man does evil to them, he behaves as strangely as a bird that tries to swim or a fish that tries to fly.
—Leo Tolstoy
In order not to commit evil acts, you must learn to restrain yourself from unkind conversation and most of all from unkind thoughts.
—Leo Tolstoy