John Berida > John's Quotes

“Joy is love exalted; peace is love in repose; long-suffering is love enduring; gentleness is love in society; goodness is love in action; faith is love on the battlefield; meekness is love in school; and temperance is love in training.”
― D.L. Moody

“I felt that if a man's proposals met with approval, it should encourage him; if they met with opposition, it should make him fight back; but the real tragedy for him was to lift up his voice among the living and meet with no response neither approval nor opposition just as if he were left helpless in a boundless desert.”
― Lu Hsun, Selected Stories

“A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.”
― Maya Angelou

“Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all... As long as matters are really hopeful, hope is mere flattery or platitude; it is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a strength.”
― G.K. Chesterton

“No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“... a mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strengths.”
― C. H. Spurgeon

“The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not to argue about it or to spend time denouncing it, but to lay a straight stick alongside it”
― D.L. Moody

“The Lord gets His best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.”
― Charles Spurgeon

“It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.”
― Aung San Suu Kyi, Freedom from Fear

“Character is what you are in the dark.”
― Dwight L. Moody

“Care more for a grain of faith than a ton of excitement.”
― Charles Spurgeon

“You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.”
― Charles H. Spurgeon

“Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.”
― Charles H. Spurgeon

“And men go abroad to admire the heights of mountains, the mighty waves of the sea, the broad tides of rivers, the compass of the ocean, and the circuits of the stars, yet pass over the mystery of themselves without a thought.”
― St. Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

“Visit many good books, but live in the Bible.”
― Charles Spurgeon

“The most common form of despair is not being who you are.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“Our greatest fear should not be of failure, but of succeeding at something that doesn't really matter.”
― D.L. Moody

“Small numbers make no difference to God. There is nothing small if God is in it.”
― Dwight Lyman Moody

“A little faith will bring your soul to heaven; a great faith will bring heaven to your soul.”
― Charles Spurgeon

“That very church which the world likes best is sure to be that which God abhors.”
― Charles Spurgeon

“I firmly believe that the moment our hearts are emptied of selfishness and ambition and self-seeking and everything that is contrary to God's law, the Holy Spirit will come and fill every corner of our hearts; but if we are full of pride and conceit, ambition and self-seeking, pleasure and the world, there is no room for the Spirit of God. I also believe that many a man is praying to God to fill him, when he is full already with something else. Before we pray that God would fill us, I believe we ought to pray that He would empty us. There must be a n emptying before there can be a filling; and when the heart is turned upside down, and everything that is contrary to God is turned out, then the Spirit will come...”
― D.L. Moody

“This is the test as to your being a true child of God - whether you love and feed upon the Word of God.”
― Dwight Lyman Moody, Pleasure and Profit in Bible Study and Anecdotes, Incidents and Illustrations

“God cannot hear the prayers on our lips often because the desires of our heart after the world cry out to Him much more strongly and loudly than the our desires for Him.”
― Andrew Murray

“The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.”
― Soren Kierkegaard, The Journals of Kierkegaard

“Man is to be understood only in his relation to God.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

“To fear is to have more faith in your antagonist than in Christ.”
― D.L. Moody, The Overcoming Life

“If God is wiser that we His judgement must differ from ours on many things, and not least on good and evil. What seems to us good may therefore not be good in His eyes, and what seems to us evil may not be evil.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

“It is not our work to make men believe: that is the work of the Holy Spirit.”
― Dwight Lyman Moody, Pleasure and Profit in Bible Study and Anecdotes, Incidents and Illustrations