Reality has become much scarier than any, even tasteless, imagination. And it should be shown that way. The human soul is measured to its full extent, and such that the world did not even suspect. Books and films about our truth, about our people must crackle with horror, suffering, anger and the unheard-of power of the human spirit.
Our life is a journey, and a friendly conversation is a cart that makes the traveler's way easier.
— Hryhoriy Skovoroda
The people will not want reading material about the war that is descriptive. The people need him from the inside, in his suffering, in his doubts, in his struggle, renewal, and to show him the way and prospects. The people must be glorified, pacified, and brought up in goodness, because so much evil has befallen their lot in one generation that would be enough for ten generations.
— Oleksandr Dovzhenko
Some people hold the truth, but in such a cold stern way that it will do no good. Other people want to love everything, and so they give up much of the truth; but we are to hold the truth in love; we are to hold the truth even if we lose all, but we are to hold it in love.
—D. L. Moody
It is confessedly true, that God’s good pleasure appointing us from eternity to salvation, is, in its kind, a most full and sufficient impulsive cause of our salvation, and every way able (for so much as it is concerned) to produce its effect.
—John Flavel
If you want to pray strategically, in a way which would please God, pray that God might raise up men who see the beauty of the Lord our God & would begin to preach it & hold it out to people, instead of offering peace of mind, deliverance from cigarettes, a better job & cottage.
What Descartes did was a good step. You have added much several ways, and especially in taking the colours of thin plates into philosophical consideration. If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
—Isaac Newton
All I insist on, and nothing else, is that you should show the whole world that you are not afraid. Be silent, if you choose; but when it is necessary, speak—and speak in such a way that people will remember it.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Have we a bitter zeal, inciting us to strive sharply and passionately with them that are out of the way? Or is our zeal the flame of love, so as to direct all our words with sweetness, lowliness, and meekness of wisdom?
—John Wesley
The Bible has a way of putting more in a single sentence than other writers can put in a whole book. Yet there are some who would tell us that the Bible is no more God’s book than other books. Either they have not read the Bible, or they have read it with their eyes closed.
—R. A. Torrey
Christ pleads the cause of believers by his blood. Unlike other advocates, it is not enough for him to lay out only words, which is a cheaper way of pleading; but he pleads for us by the voice of his own blood (Heb.12:24).
—John Flavel
“You can get in way more trouble with a good idea than a bad idea because you forget that the good idea has limits.”
— Benjamin Graham
“You must buy on the way down. There is far more volume on the way down than on the way up, and far less competition among buyers.
It is almost always better to be too early than too late…”
— Seth Klarman
“The best way to minimize risk is to think.”
If the essential core of the person is denied or suppressed, he gets sick sometimes in obvious ways, sometimes in subtle ways, sometimes immediately, sometimes later.
“The most powerful way to grow your money is learning to live with less, since you have complete control over it.”
— Morgan Housel
“If you want to succeed in investments, start early and try hard and keep doing it. All success comes that way, by and large.”
God by His Spirit must change the hearts of the people, if they are to walk in His ways, and keep His ordinances and statutes. The Spirit of the Lord alone works the true, spiritual, and moral life.
—Herman Bavinck
Morality of itself, dear Sir, will never carry us to heaven; no, Jesus Christ is the way, the truth and the life.
—George Whitefield
Some people hold the truth, but in such a cold stern way that it will do no good. Other people want to love everything, and so they give up much of the truth; but we are to hold the truth in love; we are to hold the truth even if we lose all, but we are to hold it in love.
—D. L. Moody
They say that a good person can’t help but be angry with bad people. If this is true, then the better a person is, the angrier he must be. In reality, however, it’s the other way around: the better a person is the gentler and kinder he is with all people.
—Leo Tolstoy
They say that a good person can’t help but be angry with bad people. If this is true, then the better a person is, the angrier he must be. In reality, however, it’s the other way around: the better a person is the gentler and kinder he is with all people.
—Leo Tolstoy
If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don’t bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he’s a good man.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don’t bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he’s a good man.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
“We must stand by our Bible, never giving way.”
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
“The only way to keep chaff out of the child’s little measure is to fill it brimful with good wheat. Oh that the Spirit of God may help us to do this!”
– Charles Spurgeon
To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Our Lord has hallowed the ordinary in such a way that no one can ever make it unspiritual.
—Amy Carmichael