Inspirational Christian Quotes

“The blade itself incites to deeds of violence.”

“Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.”

“It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.”

“Government is not a solution to our problem government is the problem.”

“He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.”

“Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.”

“The world does not need more Christian literature. What it needs is more Christians writing good literature.”

“On the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart”

“No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.”

“The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than anyone else. You know it is sometimes very pleasant to take offense, isn't it? A man may know that nobody has insulted him, but that he has invented the insult for himself, has lied and exaggerated to make it picturesque, has caught at a word and made a mountain out of a molehill--he knows that himself, yet he will be the first to take offense, and will revel in his resentment till he feels great pleasure in it.”

“And so I ask myself: 'Where are your dreams?' And I shake my head and mutter: 'How the years go by!' And I ask myself again: 'What have you done with those years? Where have you buried your best moments? Have you really lived? Look,' I say to myself, 'how cold it is becoming all over the world!' And more years will pass and behind them will creep grim isolation. Tottering senility will come hobbling, leaning on a crutch, and behind these will come unrelieved boredom and despair. The world of fancies will fade, dreams will wilt and die and fall like autumn leaves from the trees. . . .”

“Do you know I don't know how one can walk by a tree and not be happy at the sight of it? How can one talk to a man and not be happy in loving him! Oh, it's only that I'm not able to express it...And what beautiful things there are at every step, that even the most hopeless man must feel to be beautiful! Look at a child! Look at God's sunrise! Look at the grass, how it grows! Look at the eyes that gaze at you and love you!...”

“ Knowledge itself is power.”

“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." [Preface to (1794)]”

“He who stands on tiptoe doesn't stand firm. He who rushes ahead doesn't go far. He who tries to shine dims his own light. He who defines himself can't know who he really is. He who has power over others can't empower himself. He who clings to his work will create nothing that endures. If you want to accord with the Tao, just do your job, then let go.”

“Lord, we know what we are, but know not what we may be.”

“Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.”

“If God is for us, who can be against us?”

“Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?”

“The whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano key.”