Quotes about Life
I think it not improbable that man, like the grub that prepares a chamber for the winged thing it never has seen but is to be - that man may have cosmic destinies that he does not understand.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A man's greatest care should be for that place where he lives longest; therefore eternity should be his scope.
— Thomas Watson
Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.
— Philip James Bailey
The circumstances that surround a man's life are not important. How that man responds to those circumstances IS IMPORTANT. His response is the ultimate determining factor between success and failure.
— Booker T. Washington
Man is; it matters to him; this is terrifying unless it matters to God, too, because this is the only possible reason we can matter to ourselves.
— Madeleine L'Engle
That all of God's men are immortal until God is through with them is a wonderful comforting thought for today. And when He is through with you, He will remove you from the earth.
— J. Vernon McGee
The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise God-fearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with Christ. When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Next to creating a life the finest thing a man can do is save one.
— Abraham Lincoln
The highest perfection of human life consists in the mind of man being detached from care, for the sake of God.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Isn't it amazing that God gives breath to a man who is going to blaspheme Him all day!
— Leonard Ravenhill
The men that have been the most heroic for God have had the greatest devotional lives.
— Leonard Ravenhill
It is in the middle that human choices are made; the beginning and the end remain with God. The decrees of God are birth and death, and in between those limits man makes his own distress or joy.
— Oswald Chambers