Do not learn the ways of the nations, or be terrified by signs in the sky, though the nations are terrified by them.
—Jerry
Believe me it is highly important that a man’s speech be accurate and true, for so then will his thought be. And furthermore, although to understand and to speak rightly is not everything, inasmuch as one is also required to act rightly, yet in relation to action the right understanding is like the springboard from which the jumper makes his leap.
—Kierkegaard
No man has ever entertained a thought which can be said to describe God in any but the vaguest and most imperfect sense.
—A.W. Tozer
My head is an organ for burrowing.
—Thoreau
What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, no matter how well selected, or the best society, or the most admirable routine of life, compared with the discipline of looking always at what is to be seen?
—Thoreau
My “best” room, however, my withdrawing room, always ready for company, on whose carpet the sun rarely fell, was the pine wood behind my house.
—Thoreau
It is when i turn to Christ, when i give myself up to His Personality, that i first begin to have a real personality of my own.
—C.S. Lewis
Goodness is either the great safety or the great danger- according to the way you react to it. And we have reacted the wrong way.
—C.S. Lewis
To seek high emotional states while living in sin is to throw our whole life open to self deception and the judgment of God. “Be ye holy” is not a mere motto to be framed and hung on the wall. It is a serious commandment from the Lord of the whole earth. “Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded. Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into heaviness” (James 4:8-9). The true Christian ideal is not to be happy but to be holy. The holy heart alone can be the habitation of the Holy Ghost.
—Tozer
No joys are valid, no delights legitimate where sin is allowed to live in life or conduct.
—Tozer
