 Suffer me to become food for the wild beasts, through whose instrumentality it will be granted me to attain to God. I am the wheat of God, and let me be ground by the teeth of the wild beasts that I may be found the pure bread of Christ.
- Ignatius of Antioch Topics: Suffering |
You have escaped the formidable rocks. Beware lest you are wrecked on the sands.
- Gregory Nazianzen Topics: Temptation |
The higher the hill, the stronger the wind: so the loftier the life, the stronger the enemy's temptations.
- John Wycliffe Topics: Temptation, Satan |
This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people.
- John Wycliffe Topics: The Bible |
The Bible is worth all other books which have ever been printed.
- Patrick Henry Topics: The Bible |
In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.
- Robert E. Lee Topics: The Bible, Stress, Strength |
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I will answer for it, the longer you read the Bible, the more you will like it; it will grow sweeter and sweeter; and the more you get into the spirit of it, the more you will get into the spirit of Christ.
- William Romaine Topics: The Bible |
What can be lighter than a burden which takes our burdens away, and a yoke which bears up the bearer himself?
- Bernard of Clairvaux Topics: Trials |
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Topics: Truth |
The great unity which true science seeks is found only by beginning with our knowledge of God, and coming down from Him along the stream of causation to every fact and event that affects us.
- Howard Crosby Topics: Truth, God |
I believe that in the end the truth will conquer.
- Cyprian Topics: Truth |
After reading the doctrines of Plato, Socrates, or Aristotle, we feel that the specific difference between their words and Christ's is the difference between an inquiry and a revelation.
- Joseph Parker Topics: Truth |
