Inspirational Quotes by Assorted Authors

“In the Kingdom of God, service is not a stepping-stone to nobility: it is nobility, the only kind of nobility that is recognized.”

“Temptation usually comes in through a door that has deliberately been left open.”

“Sin is a violation of moral light, a refusal to conform to what is known and perceived.”

“We are wearied with our sins, and have no satisfaction in them; we go to bed tonight weary of our sinful labors, and we will rise freshly tomorrow to the same sinful labors again.”

“When you entertain any temptation to sin, you do as wisely as he who takes those into his house whom he knows are come on purpose to spoil him of what he esteems most precious.”

“No man taketh away sins (which the law, though holy, just and good, could not take away), but He in whom there is no sin.”

“I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.”

“Calamity clarifies and comfort confuses; persecution purifies and prosperity pollutes!”

“'Easy' [His yoke], but only to the loving.”

“Nothing can work me damage, except myself. The harm that I sustain I carry about me, and never am a real sufferer but by my own fault.”

“The whole way from Syria to Rome, chained as I am to half a score of soldiers, who only grow more insolent the more bribes they are given. I look forward to the real lions that have been prepared for me. Oh I pray, as I will find them swift. I am going to make overtures to them, so that they may devour me with all speed."”

“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.”

“You have escaped the formidable rocks. Beware lest you are wrecked on the sands.”

“The higher the hill, the stronger the wind: so the loftier the life, the stronger the enemy's temptations.”

“This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people.”

“The Bible is worth all other books which have ever been printed.”

“In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.”

“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.”

“What can be lighter than a burden which takes our burdens away, and a yoke which bears up the bearer himself?”

“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”