I have a Savior; though I sought
Through earth and air and sea,
I could not find a word, a thought,
To show Him worthily.
But planted here in rock and moss
I see the Sign of utmost loss;
I hear a word—On Calvary’s Cross
Love gave Himself for thee.
—Amy Carmichael
Thou art my Stony Rock
Thou standest very high,
And yet Thou art accessible,
My God, yea very nigh:
A thought, a wish, an infant’s cry,
And I, in Thee, am set on high.
—Amy Carmichael
The study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.
—Thomas Aquinas
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
—Marcus Aurelius
God remains eternal and inhabits eternity, but uses time with a view to manifesting his eternal thoughts and perfections. He makes time subservient to eternity and thus proves himself to be the King of the ages (1 Tim. 1:17).
—Herman Bavinck
Gratitude and joy drove them to do good works before the thought that they had to do them even crossed their mind.
—Herman Bavinck
The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.
—Marcus Aurelius
Was very fearful lest I should admit some vain thought, and so lose the sense I then had of divine things. O for an abiding heavenly temper!
—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
Heart-work is hard work indeed. To shuffle over religious duties with a loose and heedless spirit, will cost no great pains; but to set thyself before the Lord, and tie up thy loose and vain thoughts to a constant and serious attendance upon him; this will cost thee something.
—John Flavel
The Holy Spirit can take a man whose mind is blind to the truth of God, whose will is at enmity with God, whose affections are corrupt and vile, and transform that man, impart to him a new nature, so that he thinks God’s thoughts, love what God loves, and hate what God hates.
—R. A. Torrey
If yet your heart hangs back (from thoughts of death), consider the great advantage you will have by death above all that ever you enjoyed on earth. For your communion with God, the time of perfecting that is now come.
—John Flavel
I know that some of our knees are a bit old, but I still thought this interesting.
“Oftentimes, it helps us to a realization of the presence of God to read the Bible on our knees. The Bible became a new book to me when I took to reading it on my knees.”
—R. A. Torrey
The devil thought he was defeating Christ, but Christ was reconciling us to God, defeating the devil and delivering us out of his clutches.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
So deep is the hatred that upright ones bear to sin that nothing pleases them more than the thoughts of a full deliverance from it.
—John Flavel
Christ’s words must abide or continue in us. We must study His words, fairly devour His words, let them sink deep into our thought and into our heart, keep them in our memory, obey them constantly in our life, let them shape and mold our daily life and our every act.
—R. A. Torrey
A sincere heart dares not sin because of the eye and fear of God that is on him; so you find it in Job 31:1 & 4. He dared not allow his thoughts to sin because he lived under the awe of God’s eye.
—John Flavel
The modern liberal desires to produce upon the minds of simple Christians (and upon his own mind) the impression of some sort of continuity between modern liberalism and the thought and life of the great Apostle. But such an impression is altogether misleading.
—J. Gresham Machen
To think of parting with peace, health, liberty, relations, wives, children; it is offensive, heavy, and grievous to the best of the saints: but their souls cannot bear the thoughts of parting with Jesus Christ; such a thought is cruel as the grave.
—John Owen
To think of parting with peace, health, liberty, relations, wives, children; it is offensive, heavy, and grievous to the best of the saints: but their souls cannot bear the thoughts of parting with Jesus Christ; such a thought is cruel as the grave.
—John Owen
In order not to commit evil acts, you must learn to restrain yourself from unkind conversation and most of all from unkind thoughts.
—Leo Tolstoy
Changes in our lives always come about through changes in our thoughts. Therefore effort to change our thoughts is far more important than the effort we exert to change our physical lives.
—Leo Tolstoy
The soul is never satisfied with thoughts of Christ’s love to it. “O that it were more, that it were more! that I were as a ‘seal on his heart!'” is its language.
—John Owen
A sense of my unworthiness and unfitness so weighs me down, that I have often thought it would be best for me to retire. But I know these are all suggestions of the enemy. Why should I distrust omnipotence?
—George Whitefield
A sense of my unworthiness and unfitness so weighs me down, that I have often thought it would be best for me to retire. But I know these are all suggestions of the enemy. Why should I distrust omnipotence?
—George Whitefield
I have often thought, dear Madam, that you did not see through the world enough.
—George Whitefield
Nothing more habitually reconciles a child of God to the thought of death than the wearisomeness of…warfare with sin and temptation.
—John Newton
The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.
—John Locke
Overlong sermons… call off the thoughts from the sermon to the pudding at home that is in danger of being overboiled.
—John Newton
Men’s actions are the best guides to their thoughts.
—John Locke