Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.
—Henry David Thoreau
You must follow your guide, which is the Word of God, which directs you still to pray and to seek and follow on.
—Jonathan Edwards
“The promise of harvest gives joy to the earth. Rob not your Lord of the sheaves which he deserves to gather from your heart and life; but believe his Word, rest upon it, and rejoice in it, realizing that his words of promise are meant to bring you great joy.”
We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Wean yourself from using your words to condemn others and you’ll feel an increase in your ability to live in your soul; you’ll feel an increase in life and happiness.
—Leo Tolstoy
Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
—Sigmund Freud
I love those that thunder out the word. The Christian world is in a deep sleep. Nothing but a loud voice can awaken them out of it.
—George Whitefield
A word aptly uttered or written cannot be cut away by an axe.
—Nikolai Gogol
In God’s worship there must be nothing tendered up to God but what he hath commanded; whatsoever we meddle with in the Worship of God, it must be what we have a warrant for out of the Word of God.
—Jeremiah Burroughs
In God’s worship there must be nothing tendered up to God but what he hath commanded; whatsoever we meddle with in the Worship of God, it must be what we have a warrant for out of the Word of God.
—Jeremiah Burroughs
However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.
—Nikolai Gogol