Quotes about Obtain
I do not appeal to you to screw up your courage and sacrifice for Christ. I appeal to you to renounce all you have to obtain life that satisfies your deepest longings.
— John Piper
Alas, poor man! is the heavenly glory of so little worth with him, that he counteth it not worth running the risk of a few difficulties to obtain it?
— John Bunyan
What then? What Israel was seeking, it failed to obtain, but the elect did. The others were hardened,
— Romans 11:7
So, let's come back to the simple question Jesus asks of us all: What do you want? Don't minimize it; don't try to make sure it sounds spiritual; don't worry about whether or not you can obtain it. Just stay with the question until you begin to get an answer. This is the way we keep current with our hearts.
— John Eldredge
The highest service to which a man may obtain on earth is to preach the law of God.
— John Wycliffe
Just then a man came up to Jesus and inquired, “Teacher, what good thing must I do to obtain eternal life?”
— Matthew 19:16
Though every man naturally abhorreth sorrow, and loves the most merry and joyful life; yet few do love the way to joy, or will endure the pains by which it is obtained; they will take the next that comes to hand, and content themselves with earthly pleasures, rather than they will ascend to heaven to seek it ;l and yet when all is done, they must have it there, or be without it (491).
— Richard Baxter
Our goal must be, not to gain a divine knowledge of reality, but to obtain a human knowledge sufficient to carry out whatever calling God has given each of us.
— John Frame
It was a costly key for Him to purchase, and it's a costly key for us to use. But, it's even more costly to bury it and not obtain an increase for the coming King. That price will be felt throughout eternity.
— Bill Johnson
The sins of the saints are pardonable, not because of their nature as saints, but because they obtain pardon from God's mercy.
— John Calvin
First you borrow. Then you beg.
— Ernest Hemingway
It was strange, she thought, to obtain news by means of nothing but denials, as if existence had ceased, facts had vanished and only the frantic negatives uttered by officials and columnists gave any clue to the reality they were denying.
— Ayn Rand