John Edwar > John's Quotes

“This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Never doubt God in the darkness what he has given us in the light.”
― Francine Rivers, A Voice in the Wind

“The world says: "You have needs -- satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don't hesitate to satisfy your needs; indeed, expand your needs and demand more." This is the worldly doctrine of today. And they believe that this is freedom. The result for the rich is isolation and suicide, for the poor, envy and murder.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“لأننا إذا أكلنا جسدا مبذولا ولم نبذل أنفسنا، فكيف ندعي الاتحاد؟”
― متى المسكين, الصوم الأربعيني المقدس

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.”
― Alice Walker

“To love someone means to see them as God intended them.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“I walked a mile with Pleasure;
She chatted all the way;
But left me none the wiser
For all she had to say.

I walked a mile with Sorrow;
And ne’er a word said she;
But, oh! The things I learned from her,
When Sorrow walked with me.”
― Robert Browning Hamilton