The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
—Oscar Wilde
“Train up a child in the way he should go—but be sure you go that way yourself.”
Childhood has its own way of seeing, thinking, and feeling, and nothing is more foolish than to try to substitute ours for theirs.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The glory of the atonement is not that there’s a change in us, rather it’s that there’s a change in the way God deals with us.
—J. Gresham Machen
Only when the way is rough,
And the coward flesh would start,
Let thy promise and thy love,
Cheer and animate my heart.
—John Newton
[On prayer.] There is no other way but to begin and go on and to go through.
—Jonathan Edwards
I don’t know where I am going, but I am on my way.
—Voltaire
The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by Infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
—Voltaire
Truly good people don’t expect rewards for their good deeds. They forget about them the way a person forgets about his breathing.
—Leo Tolstoy
There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt
Jesus Christ hath ‘consecrated a new and living way’ (for the saints) ‘through the vail, that is to say, his flesh,’ Heb 10:20. He hath consecrated and set it apart for believers, and for them alone.
—John Owen
God hath set him forth to declare his righteousness for the forgiveness of sin; he hath made way in him for ever to exalt the glory of his pardoning mercy to sinners.
—John Owen
The soul sees in Christ a way to peace with God, and a way by which the law may be answered, and justice satisfied, and yet he may escape; a wonderful way indeed, but yet a certain and a glorious one.
—Jonathan Edwards
He takes away the guilt of sin, from which the soul before saw no way how it was possible to be freed, and which, if it was not removed, led to eternal destruction.
—Jonathan Edwards
Mortification from a self-strength, carried on by ways of self-invention, unto the end of a self-righteousness, is the soul and substance of all false religion in the world.
—John Owen
The best way to make a progress in religion, is to persist in, and to improve on the means we enjoy.
—George Whitefield
There are a thousand ways to Wealth, but only one way to Heaven.
—John Locke
Governments must be left again to the old way of being made by contrivance and the consent of men.
—John Locke
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 evil is committed, a person is afraid that people will know about it, he can still find a way to good. When, having done good, a person tries to make people know about it, he gives rise to evil.
—Taras Shevchenko