This is the solution of what to a man of the world might seem a strange paradox, that in proportion as the Christian grows in grace, he grows also in humility.
—William Wilberforce
If the world has nothing to say against you, it is a pretty sure sign that God has not much to say for you, for if you do seek to live unto Christ Jesus, you must go against the current of the world.
—D. L. Moody
O tell it out that He is near, all you who love Him, tell it out to the sad world that thinks Him far away, though He be not far from every one of us.
—Amy Carmichael
You are enlisted under the banner of Christ – ‘Fear not, though the world, and the flesh, and the devil are set in array against you’.
—William Wilberforce
“Our urgent work— I mean yours and mine, my brethren— is to go out into the world and proclaim the blessed gospel of salvation to all who care to hear us.”
– Charles Spurgeon
Death may therefore have come into the world by a man; but the resurrection from the dead came also by a man (1 Cor. 15:21). Christ is Himself the resurrection and the life ( John 11:25).
—Herman Bavinck
‘God is love’. This is the sacred principle which warms and enlightens the heavenly world, that blessed seat of God’s visible presence.
—William Wilberforce
The world is lying in misery, we ourselves are sinners, men are perishing in sin every day. The gospel is the sole means of escape.
—J. Gresham Machen
The strongest proof of God’s love is that He gave Christ to die for our sins. That cross testifies of the love of God for this world.
—D. L. Moody
The world is formed from the void, like utensils from a block of wood.
—Laozi
“Let us spend our risen life on earth as Jesus spent his,— in a greater seclusion from the world and in greater nearness to heaven than ever.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“Our Jesus lives, and because he lives we shall live also, world without end.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“Farewell, thou deadly love of sin; we have done with thee! Farewell, dead world, corrupt world; we have done with thee! Christ has raised us. Christ has given us eternal life.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“If ye then be risen with Christ ye walk in newness of life, while the world abideth in death.”
– Charles Spurgeon
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
—Franz Kafka
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
—Franz Kafka
The Master observes the world but trusts his inner vision.
—Laozi
Strive, O my soul, to maintain and keep alive impressions, first, of the constant presence of a holy, omniscient, omnipotent, but infinitely merciful and gracious God, of Christ our almighty shepherd, of the Holy Spirit, of the evil one, and the invisible world in general.
—William Wilberforce
If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. – C.S. Lewis
If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?
—Voltaire
We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.
—Pablo Picasso
It’s easier to enlighten the world’s stupidest person than to enlighten a proud person.
—Leo Tolstoy
Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth.
—George Washington
Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.
—Voltaire
There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the human heart that will not go out no matter how dark the world becomes.
—Leo Tolstoy
“The whole world may reel to and fro like a drunken man but the Rock of Ages stands secure.”
— Charles Spurgeon
Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
—Mark Twain
“Baptism is a sweet emblem of my death to all the world!
May I, from now on, live only for Jesus!”
— Charles Spurgeon
“The devil, the world, and the temptations of life, would soon erase out of the heart all that God had written there if he did not create it anew with the faculty of holding fast that which is good.”
– Charles Spurgeon
Seeing among the gloomy people an open pleasant smile addressed to you, you begin to understand that everything is not so bad in this world, there is a lot of good ahead of you.
—Taras Shevchenko