Without the consciousness of sin, the whole of the gospel will seem to be an idle tale.
—J. Gresham Machen
Without the resurrection, the death of Christ was only the heroic death of a noble martyr, with the resurrection, it is the atoning death of the Son of God.
—R. A. Torrey
Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead.
We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.
—Sigmund Freud
“Without the death of Jesus, nothing remains for us but death.”
Knowing God without knowing our wretchedness leads to pride. Knowing our wretchedness without knowing God leads to despair. Knowing Jesus Christ is the middle course, because in him we find both God and our wretchedness.
—Blaise Pascal
“Our Jesus lives, and because he lives we shall live also, world without end.”
– Charles Spurgeon
The confession of the Trinity is the core and the main element of the entire Christian religion. Without it, neither creation, nor redemption, nor sanctification can be purely maintained.
—Herman Bavinck
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
—John Milton
The supreme good is like water, which nourishes all things without trying to.
—Laozi
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
—Oscar Wilde
A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.
—Immanuel Kant
Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another.
—Immanuel Kant
One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away.
—Stephen Hawking
One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away.
—Stephen Hawking
It is quite the fashion to contemptuously contrast the pray-ers with the do-ers – forgetting that in the history of the church the real do-ers have been the pray-ers, that those who have done the most in the church’s history have been, without exception, men and women of prayer.
—R. A. Torrey
I will not live without love.
—Vincent Van Gogh
Emotion is the chief source of all becoming-conscious.
There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.
—Carl Jung
No social stability without individual stability.
—Aldous Huxley
I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it. I would hope to act with compassion without thinking of personal gain.
—Thomas Aquinas
Seldom, or perhaps never, does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises; there is no coming to consciousness without pain.
—Carl Jung
Help me, O Lord, without Thee I can do nothing.
—William Wilberforce
If the devil cannot make a man feel that he is good enough without being saved, then he will tell him he is so bad the Lord will have nothing to do with him.
—D. L. Moody
No psychic value can disappear without being replaced by another of equivalent intensity.
—Carl Jung
It is impossible to exist without passion.
—Søren Kierkegaard
Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. If you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away.
—Stephen Hawking
Trifle not then, O my soul, with thy immortal interests. Heaven is not to be won without labour.
—William Wilberforce
I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
—John Milton
While we are settling the date of Jesus’ birth, the world is doing without its Christmas message.
—J. Gresham Machen
Without watchfulness, humiliation, and prayer, the sense of divine things must languish, as much as the grass withers for want of refreshing rains and dews.
—William Wilberforce