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If it is a great thing to rule over bodies, it is even greater to rule over souls.

— Hryhoriy Skovoroda

It is not by might or violence, therefore, that Christ rules in the kingdom given Him by the Father. He did not do this in His humiliation, and He does not do it in His exaltation.

—Herman Bavinck

The Lord, on the behalf of Christ, for his sake, because it is purchased and procured by him for us, bestows faith, and (by same rule) all grace upon us.

—John Owen

Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.

René Descartes

“The law is never honoured by fallen man till he comes from under its condemning rule, and walks by faith, and lives under the covenant of grace.”

Charles Spurgeon

Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss.

—John Milton

When one is not understood one should as a rule lower one’s voice, because when one really speaks loudly enough and is not heard, it is because people do not want to hear.

One had better begin to mutter to oneself, then they get curious.

—Carl Jung

When one is not understood one should as a rule lower one’s voice, because when one really speaks loudly enough and is not heard, it is because people do not want to hear.

One had better begin to mutter to oneself, then they get curious.

—Carl Jung

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

—Marcus Aurelius

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

—Pablo Picasso

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.

—Charles Darwin

One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply doesn’t exist.. Without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist.

—Stephen Hawking

You have to make the rules, not follow them.

—Isaac Newton

As a rule when I am attacked I can defend myself; but when I am praised, I am helpless.

—Sigmund Freud

Rule your thoughts if you want to reach your goal.

—Leo Tolstoy

Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There’s no better rule.

—Charles Dickens

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them; but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him to rule, and to obey, with justice.

This is the only education which deserves the name.

—Plato

As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men’s minds more seriously than what they see.

—Julius Caesar

As a rule, men worry more about what they can’t see than about what they can.

—Julius Caesar

The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

—Plato

Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.

—Immanuel Kant

Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.

—Aristotle

There are no rules here — we’re trying to accomplish something.

—Thomas Edison

The Christian moral life has faith at its root, the law as its rule, and the honor of God as its goal.

—Herman Bavinck

They who search after the Philosopher’s Stone by their own rules obliged to a strict and religious life.

—Isaac Newton

Unite with a church where they believe in the Bible and where they preach the Bible. Avoid the churches where words are spoken, open or veiled, that have a tendency to undermine your faith in the Bible as a reliable revelation from God, the only rule of faith and practice.

—R. A. Torrey

What matters is whether I accepting God’s rule or not.

—Martyn Lloyd-Jones

The essential principle is that history can be understood only in terms of God’s kingdom-that is, the rule of God in the world as a whole and including the Church.

—Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Hell, there are no rules here – we’re trying to accomplish something.

—Thomas Edison