Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

A Christian builds his fortitude on a better foundation than stoicism; he is pleased with every thing that happens, because he knows it could not happen unless it first pleased God, and that which pleases Him must be best.

Charles Caleb Colton

My lowest days as a Christian have been more fulfilling and rewarding than all the days of glory in the White House.

Charles Caleb Colton

The hate which we all bear with the most Christian patience is the hate of those who envy us.

Charles Caleb Colton

Some well-meaning Christians tremble for their salvation, because they have never gone through that valley of tears and of sorrow, which they have been taught to consider as an ordeal that must be passed through before they can arrive at regeneration. To satisfy such minds, it may be observed, that the slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient, if it produce amendment, and that the greatest is insufficient, if it do not.

Charles Caleb Colton

In pulpit eloquence, the grand difficulty lies here--to give the subject all the dignity it so fully deserves, without attaching any importance to ourselves. The Christian messenger cannot think too highly of his prince, nor too humbly of himself.

Charles Dickens

Oh! captive, bound, and double-ironed," cried the phantom, "not to know, that ages of incessant labour, by immortal creatures, for this earth must pass into eternity before the good of which it is susceptible is all developed. Not to know that any Christian spirit working kindly in its little sphere, whatever it may be, will find its mortal life too short for its vast means of usefulness. Not to know that no space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused!

Charles Dickens

Mr. Cruncher... always spoke of the year of our Lord as Anna Dominoes: apparently under the impression that the Christian era dated from the invention of a popular game, by a lady who had bestowed her name upon it.

Charles Studd

Funds are low again, hallelujah! That means God trusts us and is willing to leave His reputation in our hands.

Charles Studd

Real Christians revel in desperate ventures for Christ, expecting from God great things and attempting the same with exhilaration.

Alan Moore

But what I hope most of all is that you understand what I mean when I tell you that even though I do not know you, and even though I may never meet you, laugh with you, cry with you, or kiss you. I love you. With all my heart, I love you.

Chris Colfer

People only love you as long as they're getting something of you, but the minute you say something they don't want to hear or do something they don't want to see, all the admiration drains from their hearts.

Chogyam Trungpa

When there is no desire to satisfy yourself, there is no aggression or speed... Because there is no rush to achieve, you can afford to relax. Because you can afford to relax, you can afford to keep company with yourself, you can afford to make love with yourself, to be friends with yourself.

China Mieville

We speak now or I do, and others do. You've never spoken before. You will. You'll be able to say how the city is a pit and a hill and a standard and an animal that hunts and a vessel on the sea and the sea and how we are fish in it, not like the man who swims weekly with fish but the fish with which he swims, the water, the pool. I love you, you light me, warm me, you are suns. You have never spoken before.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I didn't want to be apologetic about my love story, and I think to be willing to write about love you have to be willing to sound foolish. I wanted to write about foolish and goofy love and different relationships. I wanted to write about interracial relationships in a way that does not pretend as if race does not exist.

Chet Baker

You don't know what love is, until you've learned the meaning of the blues, until you've loved a love you've had to lose.

David Sedaris

Remember that the most important thing is to try and love other people as much as they love you.

David Koechner

If you don't have self love you can never find it outside of yourself.

Carl Sagan

Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world.

Charles Dickens

New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.

Charles Caleb Colton

Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.

Charles Caleb Colton

As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

It is adverse to talent to be consorted and trained up with inferior minds and inferior companions, however high they may rank. The foal of the racer neither finds out his speed nor calls out his powers if pastured out with the common herd, that are destined for the collar and the yoke.

Charles Caleb Colton

Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible.

Charles Caleb Colton

Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.

Charles Stross

You know, if I tried to change the minds of everyone who I thought needed changing, I'd never have time to do anything else.

Charles Spurgeon

When filled with holy truth the mind rests.

Charles Spurgeon

We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.