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  • #1
    F.B. Meyer
    “When the Bible itself becomes irksome, inquire whether you have not been spoiling your appetite by sweetmeats and renounce them; and believe that the Word is the wire along which the voice of God will certainly come to you if the heart is hushed and the attention fixed.”
    F.B. Meyer
    tags: bible

  • #2
    F.B. Meyer
    “Ah, afflicted one, your disabilities were meant to unite with God's enablings, your weakness to mate His power. God's grace is at hand -sufficent-- and at its best when human weakness is most profound. Appropriate it and learn that those who wait on God are stronger in their weakness than the sons of men in their stoutest health and vigor.”
    F.B. Meyer

  • #3
    Thomas à Kempis
    “In omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro.

    (Everywhere I have sought peace and not found it, except in a corner with a book.)
    Thomas a Kempis

  • #4
    Thomas à Kempis
    “The more humble and obedient to God a man is, the more wise and at peace he will be in all that he does.”
    Thomas à Kempis, The Inner Life

  • #5
    Friedrich Schlegel
    “The historian is a prophet looking backwards.”
    Friedrich Von Schlegel, Philosophical Fragments

  • #6
    Matthew Henry
    “Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him.”
    Matthew Henry

  • #7
    Matthew Henry
    “The woman was made of a rib out of the side of Adam; not made out of his head to rule over him, nor out of his feet to be trampled upon by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be beloved.”
    Matthew Henry, Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible

  • #8
    علي بن أبي طالب
    “There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance.”
    Ali Bin Abi Thalib

  • #9
    Mark Twain
    “Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”
    Mark Twain

  • #10
    Blaise Pascal
    Atheists. What grounds have they for saying that no one can rise from the dead? Which is harder, to be born or to rise again? That what has never been should be, or that what has been should be once more? Is it harder to come into existence than to come back? Habit makes us find the one easy, while lack of habit makes us find the other impossible.”
    Blaise Pascal, Pensées

  • #11
    Blaise Pascal
    “To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.”
    Blaise Pascal, Pensées

  • #12
    Augustine of Hippo
    “Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.”
    Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

  • #13
    John Bunyan
    “What God says is best, is best, though all the men in the world are against it.”
    John Bunyan, The Pilgrims Progress

  • #14
    Thomas à Kempis
    “Learned arguments do not make a man holy and righteous, whereas a good life makes him dear to God.”
    Thomas a Kempis, The Imitation of Christ
    tags: god

  • #15
    Thomas à Kempis
    “Fight like a man. Habit is overcome by habit.”
    Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ

  • #16
    Augustine of Hippo
    “You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run.”
    St. Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

  • #17
    Augustine of Hippo
    “The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.”
    St. Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

  • #18
    Augustine of Hippo
    “You are not the mind itself. For You are the Lord God of the mind. All these things are liable to change, but You remain immutable above all things.”
    St. Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

  • #19
    William Shakespeare
    “All the world's a stage,
    And all the men and women merely players;
    They have their exits and their entrances;
    And one man in his time plays many parts,
    His acts being seven ages.”
    William Shakespeare, As You Like It

  • #20
    William Shakespeare
    “Words are easy, like the wind; faithful friends are hard to find.”
    William Shakespeare, The Passionate Pilgrim

  • #21
    William Shakespeare
    “Cowards die many times before their deaths;
    The valiant never taste of death but once.
    Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
    It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
    Seeing that death, a necessary end,
    Will come when it will come.”
    William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

  • #22
    William Shakespeare
    “Lord, what fools these mortals be!”
    William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

  • #23
    Martin Luther
    “The dog is the most faithful of animals and would be much esteemed were it not so common. Our Lord God has made His greatest gifts the commonest.”
    Martin Luther

  • #24
    Niccolò Machiavelli
    “Half of these aren't even Machiavelli.
    Some are Plato, Thucydides etc....doesnt anyone check these?”
    Niccolò Machiavelli

  • #25
    Abraham Lincoln
    “All I have learned, I learned from books.”
    Abraham Lincoln

  • #26
    Martin Luther
    “Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”
    Martin Luther

  • #27
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    “By perseverance the snail reached the ark.”
    Charles Spurgeon

  • #28
    Thomas Hobbes
    “Curiosity is the lust of the mind.”
    Thomas Hobbes

  • #29
    Thomas Hobbes
    “The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone”
    Thomas Hobbes

  • #30
    Thomas Hobbes
    “Leisure is the mother of Philosophy”
    Thomas Hobbes



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