Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
—Isaac Newton
Oh, it refreshed my soul, to think of former things, of desires to glorify God, of the pleasures of living to him!
—David Brainerd
My soul longed to wing away for the paradise of God; I longed to be conformed to God in all things.
—David Brainerd
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
Longed exceedingly for angelic holiness and purity, and to have all my thoughts, at all times, employed in divine and heavenly things.
—David Brainerd
O my friends, it is not enough that the object of your duties is spiritual, that they respect a holy God or that the matter is spiritual, that you be conversant about holy things; but that the frame of your heart must be spiritual, a heavenly temper of soul is necessary.
—John Flavel
The renewed nature of a saint restrains him from sin. The spirit lusts against the flesh, so that you cannot do the thing you would (Gal. 5:17).
—John Flavel
People tell us the Bible is full of things that are impossible to believe. I know of nothing else so impossible to believe as that a holy God should love such individuals as you and me, as the Bible says He does. But as impossible as it is to believe, it is true.
—R. A. Torrey
God takes up little things, and although they seem small in our sight, they are mighty when He is in them.
—D. L. Moody
Why, if God has said He will do a thing, shall we turn around and insult Him by doubting?
—D. L. Moody
Don’t you see that if you get your heart set on earthly things, you will be disappointed; but if your heart is set on heavenly things, you will have peace all the while.
—D. L. Moody
When you are a child of God, you will love the things that God loves. What you once hated you will love, and what you once loved, you will hate.
—D. L. Moody
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
Even when things look anything but divinely ordered, He is still there.
Elisabeth Elliot
Let us bear in mind that nothing is too hard for God, and He delights in doing hard things.
—D. L. Moody
The God who does the small thing is just giving you an example of the big thing He can do.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
[Faith] involves an apprehension of certain things as facts; and vain is the modern effort to divorce faith from knowledge.
—J. Gresham Machen
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
—Aldous Huxley
The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self — all your wishes and precautions — to Christ. – C.S. Lewis
Take care of yourself, and watch out for those you have to watch out for, for one does not die more than once, and nobody returns to put right the things done wrong.
—Michelangelo
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
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
—Oscar Wilde
Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
—Aldous Huxley
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
—Henry David Thoreau
It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.
—Vincent Van Gogh
Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
—Blaise Pascal
The war is a horrid, unnatural kind of thing even in its least horrible aspects.
—J. Gresham Machen
Experience is the teacher of all things.
—Julius Caesar
There may be admiration where there is no praise. The devils doubtless wonder at many things which God does.
—Jonathan Edwards
There is a God-shaped vacuum in the heart of each man which cannot be satisfied by any created thing but only by God the Creator, made know through Jesus Christ.
—Blaise Pascal