My soul felt a pleasing, yet painful concern, lest I should spend some moments without God. O may I always live to God!
—David Brainerd
God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.
—Isaac Newton
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
—Isaac Newton
Are you contented to embrace all corrections from the hand of God for the killing of the remainders of sin in you? If you will be for Christ, you must submit to Christ’s: It is in vain to say, If I can travel to heaven without meeting a storm in the way, I am willing to go
—John Flavel
To suffer sin to lodge quietly in the heart, to let thy heart habitually and without control wander from God, is a sad, a dangerous symptom indeed.
—John Flavel
Christianity without the atoning blood is a Christianity without mercy for the sinner, without settled peace for the conscience, without genuine forgiveness, without justification, without cleansing, without power. It is not Christianity, but the devil’s own counterfeit.
—R. A. Torrey
A truly gracious soul cannot long subsist without secret prayer. It is true – there is not always an equal freedom and delight, a like enlargement and comfort in those retirements, but yet he cannot be without them.
—John Flavel
The upright soul, though he may be drawn to sin, yet he cannot reflect upon his sin without shame and sorrow, which plainly shows it to be an involuntary surprise.
—John Flavel
Do not ask God to show you His will and then open your Bible at random and put your finger upon some text and take it out its connection without any relation to its real meaning and decide the will of God in that way. This is an irreverent and improper use of Scripture.
—R. A. Torrey
Keeping the heart is the most important business of a Christian’s life. Without this we are but formalists in religion: all our professions, gifts and duties signify nothing.
—John Flavel
Without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sins.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
You can’t have true faith without works no more than you can have fire without heat.
—D. L. Moody
Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.
—Sun Tzu
“Justification without sanctification would not be salvation at all.”
God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain. – C.S. Lewis
Train yourself to be indifferent to false claims about you. Without such indifference you can’t be free.
—Leo Tolstoy
Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.
—Blaise Pascal
Neither a person nor a nation can exist without some higher idea.
And there is only one higher idea on earth, and it is the idea of the immortality of the human soul, for all other “higher” ideas of life by which humans might live derive from that idea alone.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
In any case, frequent punishments are a sign of weakness or slackness in the government. There is no man so bad that he cannot be made good for something. No man should be put to death, even as an example, if he can be left to live without danger to society.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Praise is the act of intelligent creatures and not the act of mere machines or things without life.
—Jonathan Edwards
There is no such division in the external operations of God that any one of them should be the act of one person, without the concurrence of the others
—John Owen
Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
—Blaise Pascal
One before whom we could stand in our own merit without fear? He who will may be satisfied with such a God.
—J. Gresham Machen
You should speak without thinking about what you’re going to say only when you feel calm, kind, and sympathetic. If you’re agitated and annoyed, beware of saying something harmful.
—Leo Tolstoy
It goes without saying that a civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.
—Sigmund Freud
The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.
—Thomas Edison
Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster.
—Sun Tzu
It doesn’t cost anything to be honest, but without honesty people can’t have good lives.
—Leo Tolstoy