Quotes about Things

Could we but think with the intensity we love with, we might do great things.

Love is in all things a most wonderful teacher.

I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won't.

The searchlight of [God's] Spirit will probe the inner depths of your soul and reveal things that you think you have already yielded, but you have not.

And I wondered that I now loved Thee, and no phantasm for Thee. And yet did I not press on to enjoy my God; but was borne up to Thee by Thy beauty, and soon borne down from Thee by mine own weight, sinking with sorrow into these inferior things.

and man, though idiotic, and knowing not what he does, yet full of the sweet things of love and gratitude.

When we grow careless of keeping our souls, then God recovers our taste of good things again by sharp crosses.

The bias of human nature to be slow in correspondence triumphs even over the present quickening in the general pace of things:

To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.

We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence.

What if earth be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein each to other like, more than on earth is thought?

Most evangelicals have bought into the need for apparent indifference when writing about massively important things.