Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shunryu Suzuki

Moment after moment everything comes out of nothingness. This is the true joy of life.

Marcus Aurelius

The true joy of humankind is in doing that which is most proper to our nature; and the first property of people is to be kindly affected towards them that are of one kind with ourselves.

John Donne

True joy is the earnest which we have of heaven, it is the treasure of the soul, and therefore should be laid in a safe place, and nothing in this world is safe to place it in.

John Ortberg

True joy, as it turns out, comes only to those who have devoted their lives to something greater than personal happiness. This is most visible in extraordinary lives, in saints and martyrs. But it is no less true for ordinary people like us.

Eileen Caddy

You find true joy and happiness in life when you give and give and go on giving and never count the cost.

Albert Schweitzer

Preservation of life is the only true joy.

Francis Chan

The Bible teaches that true joy is formed in the midst of the difficult seasons of life.

Helen Keller

I have made my limitations tools of learning and true joy.

Jerry Bridges

Only those who walk in holiness experience true joy.

Charles Caleb Colton

Instead of exhibiting talent in the hope that the world would forgive their eccentricities, they have exhibited only their eccentricities, in the hope that the world would give them credit for talent.

Charles Spurgeon

There is nothing little in God; His mercy is like Himself-it is infinite. You cannot measure it. His mercy is so great that it forgives great sins to great sinners, after great lengths of time, and then gives great favours and great privileges, and raises us up to great enjoyments in the great heaven of the great God.

Charles Spurgeon

Repentance will not make you see Christ; but to see Christ will give you repentance.

Charles Spurgeon

Even if I give the whole of my worth to Him, He will find a way to give back to me much more than I gave.

Charles Spurgeon

If you have to give a carnival to get people to come to church, then you will have to keep giving carnivals to keep them coming back.

Charles Spurgeon

God has a way of giving by the cartloads to those who give away by shovelfuls.

Charles Spurgeon

You must either give up your sins or give up all hope of heaven.

Charles Spurgeon

If when I get to heaven the Lord shall say to me, Spurgeon, I want you to preach for all eternity, I would reply, Lord, give me a Bible, that is all I need.

Charles Spurgeon

My soul has learned yet more fully than ever, this day, that there is no satisfaction to be found in earthly things-God alone can give rest to my spirit.

Alan Paton

It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.

Alan Moore

Here's the thing: If you're monitoring every single thing that goes on in a given culture, if you have all the information that is there to be had, then that is the equivalent of having none of it. How are you going to process that amount of information?

Aiden Wilson Tozer

When the Holy Spirit is in full control of our lives, He will expect our obedience to the written Word of God. But it is part of our human problem that we would like to be full of the Spirit and yet go on and do as we please!

Edward Hopper

When I don't feel in the mood for painting I go to the movies for a week or more. I go on a regular movie binge!

Bill Nighy

I never go on the net or the web, or whatever it's called.

Benjamin Harrison

Great lives never go out; they go on.

Charles de Lint

We're all made of stories. When they finally put us underground, the stories are what will go on.

Carl Jung

Sometimes you have to do something unforgivable just to be able to go on living.

Billy Idol

The world goes on, you go on and you change. You want to show the fans those changes, and you want to be able to verbalize them.