Happiness, happiness… There are things much greater than happiness, much deeper and, if you want to know, much more authentic.
If it is a great thing to rule over bodies, it is even greater to rule over souls.
— Hryhoriy Skovoroda
“People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.”
— Abraham Lincoln
Without desire, everything is difficult, even the easiest thing.
— Hryhoriy Skovoroda
“There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.”
— Seneca
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
I don’t object to seeing men weep over their sins. I don’t know why it is not manly for a man to weep over his sins. It is more manly than to trifle with salvation, and make light of serious things. A great many men seem to be ashamed to shed tears over their sins.
—D. L. Moody
He who has been smitten with the love of God & the wonder of the cross can never again be tolerant in things that touch his soul & the souls of his fellow men. He will live beside, be patient with, minister to, pray for & love anyone, but never will he compromise the truth
—Tozer
I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven’s name, why is it so important to think the same things all together.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
The teaching of the New Testament is that God and spiritual things can be known finally only by a direct work of God within the soul. The true understanding of God must be by personal spiritual awareness. The Holy Spirit is indispensable.
—AW Tozer
It was not to the unsaved that the words “Do not fret” were spoken, but to God-fearing persons capable of understanding spiritual things. We Christians need to watch & pray lest we fall into this temptation by an irritable spirit under the stress & strain of life.
—AW Tozer
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.
—Mark Twain
Cross and crown, death and resurrection, humiliation and exaltation lie on the same line. As Jesus Himself put it after His resurrection: It was necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and so enter His glory (Luke 24:26).
—Herman Bavinck
There is one thing that I fear more than anything else, and that is the dead, cold formalism of the Church of God. So many of us are just sleeping and slumbering while souls are perishing. Some are beginning to rub our eyes and get them half-opened, but as a whole we are asleep.
—D. L. Moody
But let me tell you, my brother, eternity is another thing than we ordinarily take it to be in a healthful state. Oh, how vast and boundless! Oh, how fixed and unalterable! Oh, of what infinite importance is it, that we be prepared for eternity!
—David Brainerd
“People don’t know as much as they think they know. Society has a terrible time preparing for things that are remote but are possible and will occur sooner or later.”
“There will be bear markets about twice every 10 years and recessions twice every 10-12 years but nobody has been able to predict them reliably.
So the best thing to do is buy when shares are thoroughly depressed and that means when other people are selling.”
— John Templeton
“One thing we’ve learned is, if it’s clear that something is a mistake, fix it quickly.
It doesn’t get better while you wait.”
“The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.”
— Warren Buffett
“There’s a big difference between probability and outcome: probable things fail to happen—and improbable things happen—all the time. That’s one of the most important things you can know about investment risk.”
— Howard Marks
“If the Fed Chairman were to whisper to me what his monetary policy was going to be over the next two years, it wouldn’t change one thing I do.”
— Warren Buffett
“If we can’t find things within our circle of competence, we won’t expand the circle. We’ll wait.”
— Warren Buffett
Ascending on high, He took captivity captive, gave gifts to men, and was exalted above all heavens, in order that He should fulfill all things (Eph. 4:8–10).
—Herman Bavinck
There’s no reason to pity a person if he dies or loses his money, if he has no home or property, because none of those things belong to man. But there’s reason for pity if a person loses his one true possession, his highest blessing: his ability to love.
—Leo Tolstoy
If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself.
Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Two times two equals five is sometimes a very charming little thing.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Christ gives himself to his people to be all things to them that they need, and all things that make for their happiness.
—Jonathan Edwards
“Faith is not a blind thing; for faith begins with knowledge.”
If you see that the organization of society is bad and wish to correct it, you should know that there’s only one way to do it: all people must become better. And in the task of making people better you have power over only one thing: making yourself better.
—Leo Tolstoy
If you see that the organization of society is bad and wish to correct it, you should know that there’s only one way to do it: all people must become better. And in the task of making people better you have power over only one thing: making yourself better.
—Leo Tolstoy