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“Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

“Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?”
― Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart

“The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.”
― Charlotte Brontë

“What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.”
― A.W. Tozer

“One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it's worth watching”
― Gerard Way

“You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people if you don't serve the people.”
― Cornel West

“The deceitfulness of the heart of man appears in no one thing so much as this of spiritual pride and self-righteousness. The subtlety of Satan appears in its height, in his managing persons with respect to this sin. And perhaps one reason may be that here he has most experience; he knows the way of its coming in; he is acquainted with the secret springs of it: it was his own sin. Experience gives vast advantage in leading souls, either in good or evil.”
― Jonathan Edwards, The Religious Affections

“True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it is thinking of yourself less.”
― Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?

“The race is short between the cradle and the grave!”
― Thomas Watson, The Essential Works Of Thomas Watson

“A Christian without meditation is like a soldier without weapons, or a workman without tools.”
― Thomas Watson, The Essential Works Of Thomas Watson

“Love is a holy fuel. It fires the affections, steels the courage, and carries a Christian above the love of life, and the fear of death.”
― Thomas Watson, The Essential Works Of Thomas Watson

“The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“The Spirit inside of us is greater than even Jesus beside us.”
― J.D. Greear, Jesus, Continued...: Why the Spirit Inside You Is Better than Jesus Beside You

“They will readily change truth for error, who find no more sweetness in the one than in the other.”
― John Owen, The Works of John Owen: The Mortification Of Sin, Catechisms, Of Justification by Faith, Pneumatologia, Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy ...

“Affliction promotes holiness. The more the diamond is cut, the more it sparkles!”
― Thomas Watson, The Essential Works Of Thomas Watson

“If the gospel is old news to you, it will be dull news to everyone else.”
― Kevin DeYoung

“Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.”
― G.K. Chesterton, A Miscellany of Men

“The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see. —Winston Churchill”
― Rohit Bhargava, Non-Obvious: How to Think Different, Curate Ideas & Predict The Future

“Frustration is the beginning of the end of pretending.”
― Ralph Harris, God's Astounding Opinion of You: Understanding Your True Identity Will Change Your Life

“You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. MARK TWAIN”
― Ralph Harris, God's Astounding Opinion of You: Understanding Your True Identity Will Change Your Life

“As God did not at first choose you because you were high, so he will not forsake you because you are low;”
― John Flavel, Keeping The Heart

“if I yield to thy temptation, I must either feel the pangs of conscience, or the flames of hell.”
― John Flavel, Keeping The Heart

“most men rather need the spur, than the reins”
― John Flavel, Keeping The Heart

“Resilience is cultivated not so that we can perform well in a single instance, but so that we can live a full and flourishing life.”
― Eric Greitens, Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life

“When people say, "I know God forgives me, but I can't forgive myself," they mean that they have failed an idol, whose approval is more important than God's.”
― Timothy Keller, Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters

“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

“Nothing true can be said about God from a posture of defense.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead