Our Business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct.
—John Locke
It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of truth.
—John Locke
Self likes to do great things; but grace teaches us to do little things with a great spirit – that is, for the Lord’s sake.
—John Newton
Things of this world are in so constant a flux that nothing remains long in the same state.
—John Locke
The better to understand the nature, manner, and extent of our knowledge, one thing is carefully to be observed concerning the ideas we have; and that is, that some of them are simple and some complex.
—John Locke
The better to understand the nature, manner, and extent of our knowledge, one thing is carefully to be observed concerning the ideas we have; and that is, that some of them are simple and some complex.
—John Locke
People do their country more service by pleading for it in prayer than by finding fault with things they have no power to alter.
—John Newton
Let us suppose the thing we are most afraid of actually to happen. Can it come a moment sooner, or in any other way, than by His appointment?
Is He not gracious, and faithful, to support us under the stroke?
—John Newton
Let us suppose the thing we are most afraid of actually to happen. Can it come a moment sooner, or in any other way, than by His appointment?
Is He not gracious, and faithful, to support us under the stroke?
—John Newton
When the creamy, choice thoughts of men and women are busied about earthly things, they mind earthly things in a sinful manner.
—Jeremiah Burroughs
This is the great difference between a wicked man and a godly man: one minds earthly things, and the other has his conversation in heaven.
—Jeremiah Burroughs
It’s the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
—Nikolai Gogol
There is more good in contentment, than there is in the thing that you would fain have to cure your discontent.
—Jeremiah Burroughs
Money comes and goes, happiness is not in them. The most important thing in the world will always be the people who were with you in the most difficult times.
—Taras Shevchenko
If you see somebody coming to save your soul, the best thing you can do is run for your life.
—Peter R. Rose
Money’s just a tool to get things done with.
—Peter R. Rose
Know the difference between whats important and whats urgent and resolve to do at least one important thing every day.
—Peter R. Rose