“He only is truly great, who hath great charity. He is truly great who deemeth himself small, and counteth all height of honour as nothing.”
― The Imitation of Christ
― The Imitation of Christ
“Thus, dear friends, I have said it clearly enough, and I believe you ought to understand it and not make liberty a law...”
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“I warn every reader of this [article] to beware of quack medicines in religion. Beware of supposing that penitence, reformation, formality, and priestcraft[40] can ever give you peace with God. They cannot do it. It is not in them. The man who says they can must be ignorant of two things: he cannot know the length and breadth of human sinfulness; he cannot understand the height and depth of the holiness of God. There never breathed the man or woman on earth who tried to cleanse himself from his sins and in so doing obtained relief.”
― Free Grace Broadcaster: Atonement #227
― Free Grace Broadcaster: Atonement #227
“The natural thing to do is to work—to recognize that prosperity and happiness can be obtained only through honest effort.”
― My Life and Work
― My Life and Work
“He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.”
― The Road
― The Road
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