Quotes about Life

Whatever we are, whatever we make of ourselves, is all we will ever have — and that, in its profound simplicity, is the meaning of life.

God has put his love into our lives by pouring his Spirit into our hearts. So when we desire to love Jesus more, we are not limited to loving him out of our own small affection, but can love him with the abundant love that he freely gives.

From start to finish, the whole Christian life is by grace through faith. A new life in Christ commences with faith, continues by faith, and will be completed by faith.

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial.

Who knoweth God the sum of science owns. The heavens record His handiwork; the earth Worships His footsteps; life His breath repeats; The soul His image; everlasting space, The harmonies of His nature echoing, round Reflects His vast extension; the great whole, His boundless being, and His infinite mind.

We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives, Who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best.

Art is a man's nature; nature is God's art.

Again, one man loses by death a much-loved1359 son; another has a reprobate son alive; both equally to be pitied, though the one mourns over the death, the other over the life, of his boy.

Life's pretty funny when you're objectively on the outside looking at it.

We tend to think, 'Life should be fair because God is fair.' But God is not life. And if I confuse God with the physical reality of life- by expecting constant good health for example- then I set myself up for crashing disappointment.

Christians are not perfect, by any means, but they can be people made fully alive.

It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.