 The church is in Christ as Eve was in Adam.
- Richard Hooker Topics: Church |
A tender conscience is an inestimable blessing; that is, a conscience not only quick to discern what is evil, but instantly to shun it as the eyelid closes itself against the mote.
- Nehemiah Adams Topics: Conscience, Discernment |
Let no man carry you beyond the bounds God hath set for you, nor make you believe he hath found a plainer or more certain way to heaven than Christ hath given us.
- Edward Stillingfleet Topics: Contentment |
The utmost we can hope for in this life is contentment.
- Joseph Addison Topics: Contentment |
The body of Benjamin Franklin, Printer, lies here, food for worms; but the work shall not be lost, for it will appear once more in a new and more elegant edition, revised and corrected by the Author.
- Benjamin Franklin Topics: Death, Work |
Briars and thistles wither not so soon as lilies and roses. They may be taken out of the world, of whom the world is not worthy; and they remain behind, who are not worthy to live in the world.
- Christopher Love Topics: Death |
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Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
- John Donne Topics: Death |
I have sent for you that you may see how a Christian can die.
- Joseph Addison Topics: Death
Source: on his deathbed to stepson |
You ask for a practical direction to teach you to die well. Detach your souls from everything that you love, separate from God. This, in a few words, is the science of dying.
- Louis Bourdaloue Topics: Death |
The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
- Mark Twain Topics: Death |
Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
- Mark Twain Topics: Death |
My dear Jesus, my Savior, is so deeply written in my heart, that I feel confident, that if my heart were to be cut open and chopped to pieces, the name of Jesus would be found written on every piece.
- Ignatius of Antioch Topics: Death, Jesus, The Heart |
