Quotes about Life

Hope says to us constantly, "go on, go on," and leads us to the grave.

No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.

While we live, let us live.

Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!

Time is an eternal guest that banquets on our ideals and bodies.

What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause his child a needless tear. We may not understand life any better, but we will not resent life any longer.

Prayer covers the whole of man's life. There is no thought, feeling, yearning, or desire, however low, trifling, or vulgar we may deem it, which, if it affects our real interest or happiness, we may not lay before God and be sure of sympathy. His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man may be rolled on to God and not weary him, though it has wearied the man.

I care not what black spiritual crisis we may come through or what delightful spiritual Canaan we may enter, no blessing of the Christian life becomes continually possessed unless we are men and women of regular, daily, unhurried, secret lingerings in prayer.

Prayer should be the means by which I, at all times, receive all that I need, and, for this reason, be my daily refuge, my daily consolation, my daily joy, my source of rich and inexhaustible joy in life.

Prayer at its best is the expression of the total life, for all things else being equal, our prayers are only as powerful as our lives

Intercessory prayer for one who is sinning prevails. God says so! The will of the man prayed for does not come into question at all, he is connected with God by prayer, and prayer on the basis of the Redemption sets the connection working and God gives life.