Quotes about Life

The heart of the life of faith in answer to the call of God is a call to a relationship, and a relationship of love.

There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.

Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.

Lord Illingworth: The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden.Mrs. Allonby: It ends with Revelations.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

Life imitates art more than art imitates life.

Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Naturally, we are inclined to be so mathematical and calculating that we look upon uncertainty as a bad thing...Certainty is the mark of the common-sense life. To be certain of God means that we are uncertain in all our ways, we do not know what a day may bring forth. This is generally said with a sigh of sadness; it should rather be an expression of breathless expectation.

The great enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but the good which is not good enough. The good is always the enemy of the best.

God nowhere tells us to give up things for the sake of giving them up. He tells us to give them up for the sake of the only thing worth having--viz., life with Himself. It is a question of loosening the bonds that hinder the life...

Let the attitude of your life be a continual willingness to "go out" in dependence upon God, and your life will have a sacred and inexpressible charm about it that is very satisfying to Jesus. You must learn to "go out" through your convictions, creeds, or experiences until you come to the point in your faith where there is nothing between yourself and God.

If we were never depressed we should not be alive; it is the nature of a crystal never to be depressed.