The glory and honor of God requires that sometimes there should be tokens of his displeasure against the sins of men here in this world.
—Jonathan Edwards
If anything in the world could have been a temptation to God to dispense with justice, it would have been the infinite dearness of his own Son. But when he took our sins, God poured out his wrath upon him.
—Jonathan Edwards
A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a Happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little better for anything else.
—John Locke
A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a Happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little better for anything else.
—John Locke
The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of their mischiefs … has been, not whether be power in the world, nor whence it came, but who should have it.
—John Locke
The great question which, in all ages, has disturbed mankind, and brought on them the greatest part of their mischiefs … has been, not whether be power in the world, nor whence it came, but who should have it.
—John Locke
To love truth for truth’s sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.
—John Locke
The only defense against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
—John Locke
Things of this world are in so constant a flux that nothing remains long in the same state.
—John Locke
If there is such a blessed peace between God and a true Christian, then he must be very peaceable in the world. He must be of a very peaceable disposition before men.
—Jeremiah Burroughs
One drop of the sweetness of heaven is enough to take away all the sourness and bitterness of all the afflictions in the world.
—Jeremiah Burroughs
But there is nothing enduring in the world, and therefore even joy in the second minute is already not as acute as in the first; in the third minute it becomes still weaker and finally merges unnoticeably with the usual condition of the soul, as a circle on the water, caused by the fall of a pebble, finally merges with the smooth surface.
—Nikolai Gogol
We should study Christ, and praise and bless God, and have our hearts enlarged for Jesus Christ. This is the duty of believers to whom God has revealed Christ as wonderful… You should so walk before men as to manifest to all the world that your Savior is a wonderful Savior.
—Jeremiah Burroughs
We should study Christ, and praise and bless God, and have our hearts enlarged for Jesus Christ. This is the duty of believers to whom God has revealed Christ as wonderful… You should so walk before men as to manifest to all the world that your Savior is a wonderful Savior.
—Jeremiah Burroughs
Money comes and goes, happiness is not in them. The most important thing in the world will always be the people who were with you in the most difficult times.
—Taras Shevchenko