Janet > Janet's Quotes

“Don't be upset. Don't listen to me. I only meant that I am jealous of a dark, unconscious element, something irrational, unfathomable. I am jealous of your toilet articles, of the drops of sweat on your skin, of the germs in the air you breathe which could get into your blood and poison you. And I am jealous of Komarovsky, as if he were an infectious disease. Someday he will take you away, just as certainly as death will someday separate us. I know this must seem obscure and confused, but I can't say it more clearly. I love you madly, irrationally, infinitely.”
― Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

“Oh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people's songs.”
― Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

“He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life.”
― Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

“There shall be no more death, Because we have already seen all that, Its old and we are tired of it, And now we need something new, And this new thing is Eternal Life”
― Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

“Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. ... We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it: and Christ, because He was the only man who never yielded to temptation, is also the only man who knows to the full what temptation means—the only complete realist.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“Acquaint thyself with God.”
― A.W. Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy

“Unbelief is actually perverted faith, for it puts its faith not in the living God, but in dying men.”
― A.W. Tozer, The Knowledge of the Holy

“Strength of my heart, I need not fail,
Not mind to fear but to obey,
With such a Leader, who could quail?
Thou art as Thou wert yesterday.
Strength of my heart, I rest in Thee,
Fulfil Thy purposes through me.”
― Amy Carmichael

“We profess to be strangers and pilgrims, seeking after a country of our own, yet we settle down in the most un-stranger-like fashion, exactly as if we were quite at home and meant to stay as long as we could. I don't wonder apostolic miracles have died. Apostolic living certainly has.”
― Amy Carmichael

“Do not fight the thing in detail: turn from it. Look ONLY at your Lord. Sing. Read. Work.”
― Amy Carmichael, Gold by Moonlight

“He hath never failed thee yet.
Never will His love forget.
O fret not thyself nor let
Thy heart be troubled,
Neither let it be afraid.”
― Amy Carmichael

“Oh, will you pray? Stop now and pray, lest desire turn to feeling and feeling evaporate.”
― Amy Carmichael

“Can we follow the Savior far, who have no wound or scar? ”
― Amy Carmichael, God's Missionary

“God Hold us to that which drew us first, when the Cross was the attraction, and we wanted nothing else.”
― Amy Carmichael, God's Missionary

“There is nothing dreary or doubtful about (the life). It is meant to be continually joyful...We are called to a settled happiness in the Lord whose joy is our strength.”
― Amy Carmichael

“There have been times of late when I have had to hold on to one text with all my might: "It is required in stewards that a man may be found faithful." Praise God, it does not say "sucessful.”
― Amy Wilson-Carmichael Things as they Are

“Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does
- except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But
only if the grapes were good in the first place.”
― Abigail Van Buren

“People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.”
― Abigail Van Buren

“If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.”
― Abigail Van Buren

“The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Man’s glory lies not, Lincoln thought, in ‘his goodness,’ for this is often nonexistent. He derives glory, instead, from his being made in the image of the Living God.”
― Joe Wheeler, Abraham Lincoln, a Man of Faith and Courage: Stories of Our Most Admired President

“Now, revealing that you're a keeper is no guarantee that this guy won't just walk away. Some men really are just sport fishing and have no intention of doing anything more than throwing back the women they bed. If this is the cae with this man, then let him walk-what do you care? He's not the guy you're looking for.”
― Steve Harvey, Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man: What Men Really Think About Love, Relationships, Intimacy, and Commitment

“Every Christian is either a missionary or an imposter.”
― Charles H. Spurgeon

“If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up.”
― Charles H. Spurgeon

“There is hardship in everything except eating pancakes.”
― Charles H. Spurgeon

“Let eloquence be flung to the dogs rather than souls be lost. What we want is to win souls. They are not won by flowery speeches.”
― Charles Spurgeon

“If you are renewed by grace, and were to meet your old self, I am sure you would be very anxious to get out of his company.”
― Charles H. Spurgeon

“You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.”
― C.H. Spurgeon