Cheryl Williams > Cheryl's Quotes

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

“People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.”
― Blaise Pascal, De l'art de persuader

“You always admire what you really don't understand.”
― Blaise Pascal

“I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.”
― Blaise Pascal

“Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.”
― Blaise Pascal

“When one does not love too much, one does not love enough.”
― Blaise Pascal

“We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.”
― Blaise Pascal, Pensees

“To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.”
― Blaise Pascal

“Young men, I beseech you earnestly, beware of pride. Two things are said to be very rare sights in the world— one is a young man that is humble, and the other is an old man that is content. I fear that this is only too true.”
― J.C. Ryle, Thoughts for Young Men

“Never make an intimate friend of anyone who is not a friend of God.  ”
― J.C. Ryle, Thoughts For Young Men

“Once sin is allowed to settle in your heart, it will not be turned out at your bidding. Custom becomes second nature, and its chains are not easily broken. The prophet has well said, "Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard its spots? Neither can you do good who are accustomed to doing evil" (Jeremiah 13:23). Habits are like stones rolling down hill--the further they roll, the faster and more ungovernable is their course. Habits, like trees, are strengthened by age. A boy may bend an oak when it is a sapling--a hundred men cannot root it up, when it is a full grown tree. A child can wade over the Thames River at its fountain-head--the largest ship in the world can float in it when it gets near the sea. So it is with habits: the older the stronger--the longer they have held possession, the harder they will be to cast out.”
― J.C. Ryle, Thoughts For Young Men

“Tomorrow is the devil's day, but today is God's. Satan does not care how spiritual your intentions are, or how holy your resolutions, if only they are determined to be done tomorrow.”
― J.C. Ryle, Thoughts for Young Men

“Believe me, you cannot stand still in your souls. Habits of good or evil are daily strengthening in your hearts. Every day you are either getting nearer to God, or further off.”
― J.C. Ryle, Thoughts For Young Men

“Don't think," whispers Satan: he knows that an unconverted heart is like a dishonest businessman's financial records, they will not bear close inspection. "Consider your ways," says the Word of God--stop”
― J.C. Ryle, Thoughts For Young Men

“your soul is the one thing worth living for. It is the part of you which ought always be considered first. No place, no employment is good for you, which injures your soul. No friend, no companion deserves your confidence, who makes light of your soul's concerns.”
― J.C. Ryle, Thoughts For Young Men

“What youth sows, old age must reap.”
― J.C. Ryle, Thoughts For Young Men

“What young men will be, in all probability depends on what they are now, and they seem to forget this. Youth is the planting time of full age, the molding season in the little space of human life, the turning point in the history of man's mind.”
― J.C. Ryle, Thoughts for Young Men

“Set your immortal soul before your mind's eye, and when men ask you why you live as you do, answer them in his spirit, "I live for my soul.”
― J.C. Ryle, Thoughts For Young Men

“Young man, be of good courage. Care not for what the world says or thinks: you will not be with the world always. Can man save your soul? No. Will man be your judge in the great and dreadful day of account? No. Can man give you a good conscience in life, a good hope in death, a good answer in the morning of resurrection? No! no! no! Man can do nothing of the sort. Then "fear not the reproach of men, neither be afraid of their revilings: for the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool" (Isa. 51:7,8). Call to your mind the saying of good Colonel Gardiner: "I fear God, and therefore I have none else to fear." Go and be like him.”
― J.C. Ryle, Thoughts for Young Men

“Christ went more willingly to the cross than we do to the throne of grace.”
― Thomas Watson

“The pleasure of sin is soon gone, but the sting remains.”
― Thomas Watson

“Until sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet.”
― Thomas Watson

“We pray, 'lead us not into temptation'. Do we then lead ourselves into temptation?”
― Thomas Watson, The Art of Divine Contentment

“Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use”
― Thomas Watson

“Men could be content to have the kingdom of heaven; but they are loathe to fight for it. They choose rather to go in a feather bed to hell than to be carried to heaven in a ‘fiery chariot’ of zeal and violence.”
― Thomas Watson, Heaven Taken by Storm: Showing the Holy Violence a Christian Is to Put Forth in the Pursuit After Glory

“The gospel sweetens the law.”
― Thomas Watson

“Unless we deny our own will, we shall never do God’s will.”
― Thomas Watson

“We must love God more for what He is, than for what He bestows.”
― Thomas Watson, All Things for Good

“Better is that sin which humbles me, than that duty which makes me proud.”
― Thomas Watson, All Things for Good

“The worst that God does to His children is to whip them to heaven.”
― Thomas Watson, All Things for Good