Inspirational Quotes on Life

“Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.”

“When the world smiles upon us, and we have got a warm nest, how do we prophesy of rest and peace in those acquisitions, thinking with good Baruch, great things for ourselves, but Providence by a particular or general calamity overturns our plans (Jer. 45:4,5), and all this to turn our hearts from the creature to God.”

“Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall ever have a beginning.”

“Growth is the only evidence of life.”

“When I was young, I was sure of many things; now there are only two things of which I am sure: one is, that I am a miserable sinner; and the other, that Christ is an all-sufficient Saviour. He is well-taught who learns these two lessons.”

“So dress and conduct yourself so that people who have been in your company will not recall what you had on.”

“I see in this world two heaps--one of happiness, and the other of misery. Now, if I can take but the smallest bit from the second, and add it to the first, I carry a point. I should be glad indeed to do great things; but I will not neglect such little ones as this.”

“The chief end of man is to glorify God by enjoying him forever.”

“This world loses its appeal when the steps become tottering, when the hearing becomes dim, when the faded eyes cannot see as they once did. When loved ones are nearly all gone on ahead, then all the riches or fame or pleasures of this world are baubles and trash.”

“Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand ages hence.”

“The best we can hope for in this life is a knothole peek at the shining realities ahead. Yet a glimpse is enough. It's enough to convince our hearts that whatever sufferings and sorrows currently assail us aren't worthy of comparison to that which waits over the horizon.”

“It is a glorious thing to know that your Father God makes no mistakes in directing or permitting that which crosses the path of your life. It is the glory of God to conceal a matter. It is our glory to trust Him, no matter what.”

“Every day is a little life, and our whole life is but a day repeated. Therefore live every day as if it would be the last. Those that dare lose a day, are dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it are desperate.”

“Society is the atmosphere of souls; and we necessarily imbibe from it something which is either infectious or healthful.”

“Our wishes are the true touchstone of our estate; such as we wish to be we are. Worldly hearts affect earthly things; spiritual, divine. We cannot better know what we are than by what we would be.”

“Pleasures come like oxen slow and heavily, and go away like post-horses, upon the spur.”

“The Word of God tells us of the day when tears shall be gone forever. Until we come to that day, we move through this world in the midst of tears.”

“If Jesus is the Son of God, his teachings are more than just good ideas from a wise teacher; they are divine insights on which I can confidently build my life.”

“There's a difference between changing your opinion, and changing your lifestyle.”

“My work is going to follow after me and yours is going to follow after you. Dear friend, I'm going to have about the same kind of works that follow after me that I had with me while I lived. There's no other way. Whether you like it or don't like it, if you live rotten, you are going to have some rotten works follow you.”