I, though hell-deserving, am a living witness of his good providence; having nothing, I possess all things
—George Whitefield
When you read, observe what you read. Observe how things come in. Take notice of the drift of the discourse, and compare one scripture with another.
—Jonathan Edwards
It is a blessed thing to live upon God. Did ever any trust in him and was forsaken?
—George Whitefield
My religion is to love all living things. Ibrahim ibn Ya’qub al-Tartushi
—Leo Tolstoy
In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy’s country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.
—Sun Tzu
How becoming a thing is it that we should love and bless God, seeing he does so much for us and requires nothing also as a return but the sacrifices of thanksgiving.
—Jonathan Edwards
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
Cast away every thing from you that favours of the lust of the eye and pride of life. Be quick to hear, slow to speak, and let your conversation always be seasoned with grace.
—George Whitefield
True mastery can be gained by letting things go their own way.
—Laozi
Not seeking, not expecting, she is present, and can welcome all things.
—Laozi
“So that by virtue of our rising in Christ we have received life and have become the subjects of a wondrous change,— old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.”
If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
—Laozi
There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol.
—Aldous Huxley
“Is it not a glorious thing, that God’s strength should be perfect in our weakness?”
– Charles Spurgeon
Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
—George Orwell
Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
—George Orwell
Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
—Oscar Wilde
Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.
—Voltaire
Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed.
—Voltaire
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing. – C.S. Lewis
The supreme good is like water, which nourishes all things without trying to.
—Laozi
God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.
—Pablo Picasso
Ah, people are so patronizing in the presence of Jesus today. They say such kind, polite things about him.
—J. Gresham Machen
Each of us only needs one thing: a heart beating within us that’s free of blame, contempt, irritation, and ill will toward others. Therefore, every act that makes you irritated with people and distances you from them rather than bringing you closer to them is a waste.
—Leo Tolstoy
The philosopher Kant said that two things always astonished and inspired him more and more: the starry sky and the consciousness of the law of kindness that a person recognizes in his soul.
—Leo Tolstoy
Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown
—Immanuel Kant
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above and the moral law within.
—Immanuel Kant
The slenderest knowledge that may be obtained of the highest things is more desirable than the most certain knowledge obtained of lesser things.
—Thomas Aquinas
When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve.
—Ernest Hemingway