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Jesus136 quotes
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. — Jesus · 90It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. — Jesus · 60Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you. — Jesus · 60So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets. — Jesus · 60And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand. — Jesus · 60But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. — Jesus · 60All 136 quotes →Apostle Paul61 quotes
For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. — Apostle Paul · 56If God be for us, who can be against us? — Apostle Paul · 56But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. — Apostle Paul · 56Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. — Apostle Paul · 55But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. — Apostle Paul · 50Owe no man any thing, but to love one another. — Apostle Paul · 56All 61 quotes →God48 quotes
Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. — God · 1405 BCThou shalt not steal. — God · 1405 BCSaul, Saul, why do you persecute me? — God · 62Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. — God · 1405 BCIn the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. — God · 1405 BCYour lamb shall be without blemish. — God · 1405 BCAll 48 quotes →Muhammad29 quotes
No compulsion is there in religion. — Muhammad · 632In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate. — Muhammad · 632God is enough for me: there is no God but He. In him I have put my trust. — Muhammad · 632And do not say, regarding anything, "I am going to do that tomorrow," but only, "If God will." — Muhammad · 632Walk not on the earth exultantly; certainly thou wilt never tear the earth open, nor attain the mountains in height. — Muhammad · 632Wherever you may be, death will overtake you, though you be in raised-up towers. — Muhammad · 632All 29 quotes →John Milton24 quotes
Long is the way
And hard, that out of Hell leads up to Light. — John Milton · 1667O fairest of Creation, last and best
Of all God's works. — John Milton · 1667Her rash hand in evil hour
Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she ate:
Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat
Sighing through all her works gave signs of woe
That all was lost. — John Milton · 1667Of Man's First Disobedience, and the fruit
Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste
Brought Death into the World, and all our woe,
With loss of Eden, till one greater Man
Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat,
Sing, Heav'nly Muse. — John Milton · 1667What in me is dark
Illumine, what is low raise and support;
That to the height of this great Argument
I may assert Eternal Providence,
And justify the ways of God to men. — John Milton · 1667Who overcomes
By force hath overcome but half his foe. — John Milton · 1667All 24 quotes →Dante Alighieri21 quotes
Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. — Dante Alighieri · 1321Consider your origin;
you were not born to live like brutes,
but to follow virtue and knowledge. — Dante Alighieri · 1321When I had journeyed half of our life's way,
I found myself within a shadowed forest,
for I had lost the path that does not stray. — Dante Alighieri · 1321Haste denies all acts their dignity. — Dante Alighieri · 1321Thence we came forth to see the stars again. — Dante Alighieri · 1321My course is set for an uncharted sea. — Dante Alighieri · 1321All 21 quotes →Lao Tzu11 quotes
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. — Lao Tzu · 400 BCNature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. — Lao Tzu · 400 BCThe sage does not accumulate for himself.
The more he uses for others, the more he has himself.
The more he gives to others, the more he possesses of his own.
The Way of Heaven is to benefit others and not to injure.
The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete. — Lao Tzu · 400 BCHe who knows does not speak.
He who speaks does not know. — Lao Tzu · 400 BCDo you have the patience to wait until your mud settles and the water is clear? — Lao Tzu · 400 BCIf you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it. — Lao Tzu · 400 BCAll 11 quotes →Job9 quotes
Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord. — Job · 500 BCWith the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding. — Job · 500 BCBut where shall wisdom be found? — Job · 500 BCFor I know that my Redeemer lives, And He shall stand at last on the earth; And after my skin is destroyed, this I know, That in my flesh I shall see God. — Job · 500 BCWherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes. — Job · 500 BCI will lay mine hand upon my mouth. — Job · 500 BCAll 9 quotes →Sir Thomas Browne9 quotes
There is no road or ready way to vertue. — Sir Thomas Browne · 1643Obstinacy in a bad cause, is but constancy in a good. — Sir Thomas Browne · 1643But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to our selves? — Sir Thomas Browne · 1643There is surely a peece of Divinity in us, something that was before the Elements, and owes no homage unto the Sun. — Sir Thomas Browne · 1643A man may be in as just possession of Truth as of a City, and yet bee forced to surrender. — Sir Thomas Browne · 1643I could never divide my selfe from any man upon the difference of an opinion, or be angry with his judgement for not agreeing with mee in that, from which perhaps within a few dayes I should dissent my selfe. — Sir Thomas Browne · 1643All 9 quotes →Tertullian7 quotes
The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church. — Tertullian · 197What indeed has Athens to do with Jerusalem? — Tertullian · 220It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion. — Tertullian · 217Truth does not blush. — Tertullian · 207Man is one name belonging to every nation upon earth. In them all is one soul though many tongues. Every country has its own language; yet the subjects of which the untutored soul speaks are the same everywhere. — Tertullian · 198Out of the frying pan into the fire. — Tertullian · 206All 7 quotes →David6 quotes
Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied. — David · 1010 BCO give thanks unto the Lord; for he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever. — David · 430 BCThe Lord searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts. — David · 430 BCFor we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding. — David · 430 BCO my son Absalom—my son, my son Absalom—if only I had died in your place! O Absalom my son, my son! — David · 722 BCThe Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer. — David · 722 BCG.K. Chesterton6 quotes
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. — G.K. Chesterton · 1908Neither reason nor faith will ever die; for men would die if deprived of either. — G.K. Chesterton · 1926The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild. — G.K. Chesterton · 1908All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change. — G.K. Chesterton · 1908Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination. — G.K. Chesterton · 1908The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason. — G.K. Chesterton · 1908John Bunyan5 quotes
One leak will sink a ship, and one sin will destroy a sinner. — John Bunyan · 1678Sleep is sweet to the laboring man. — John Bunyan · 1678He that is down needs fear no fall
He that is low, no pride;
He that is humble ever shall
Have God to be his guide. — John Bunyan · 1678Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark, when high and learned ones do only pierce the air. — John Bunyan · 1665As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place where was a den, and laid me down in that place to sleep; and as I slept, I dreamed a dream. — John Bunyan · 1678Maimonides5 quotes
In the realm of Nature there is nothing purposeless, trivial, or unnecessary. — Maimonides · 1190Astrology is a disease, not a science. — Maimonides · 1195The foundation of our faith is the belief that God created the Universe from nothing; that time did not exist previously, but was created. — Maimonides · 1190When I find the road narrow, and can see no other way of teaching a well established truth except by pleasing one intelligent man and displeasing then thousand fools-I prefer to address myself to the man. — Maimonides · 1190The basic tenets of our Torah and its fundamental principles are thirteen in number: The first fundamental principle is the existence of the Creator. There is a being who exists in the most perfect mode of existence, and he is the cause of he existence of all other beings. — Maimonides · 1168St. Augustine5 quotes
Our heart is restless until it rests in you. — St. Augustine · 400A people was a multitude defined by the common objects of their love. — St. Augustine · 426The weakness of little children's limbs is innocent, not their souls. — St. Augustine · 400Hear the other side. — St. Augustine · 391Too late I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Too late I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself and there I searched for you. — St. Augustine · 400St. Thomas Aquinas5 quotes
Therefore it is necessary to arrive at a prime mover, put in motion by no other; and this everyone understands to be God. — St. Thomas Aquinas · 1265If all evil were prevented, much good would be absent from the universe. A lion would cease to live, if there were no slaying of animals; and there would be no patience of martyrs if there were no tyrannical persecution. — St. Thomas Aquinas · 1265Whatever we do or suffer for a friend is pleasant, because love is the principal cause of pleasure. — St. Thomas Aquinas · 1265Three things are necessary for man to be saved: knowledge of what is to be believed, knowledge of what is to be desired, and knowledge of what is to be done. — St. Thomas Aquinas · 1273Law: an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community. — St. Thomas Aquinas · 1273Thomas Paine5 quotes
I believe in one God and no more, and I hope for happiness beyond this life. I believe the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow creatures happy. — Thomas Paine · 1794The church has set up a system of religion very contradictory to the character of the person whose name it bears. It has set up a religion of pomp and of revenue in pretended imitation of a person whose life was humility and poverty. — Thomas Paine · 1794It is necessary to the happiness of man, that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe. — Thomas Paine · 1794Any system of religion that has any thing in it that shocks the mind of a child cannot be a true system. — Thomas Paine · 1794The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime, makes the ridiculous; and one step above the ridiculous, makes the sublime again. — Thomas Paine · 1795Alan Watts4 quotes
The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless. — Alan Watts · 1982Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone. — Alan Watts · 1957Whether we like it or not, change comes, and the greater the resistance, the greater the pain. — Alan Watts · 1995Zen is a liberation from time. For if we open our eyes and see clearly, it becomes obvious that there is no other time than this instant, and that the past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality. — Alan Watts · 1957C.S. Lewis4 quotes
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. — C.S. Lewis · 1942The safest road to Hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. — C.S. Lewis · 1942Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained. — C.S. Lewis · 1944We have trained them to think of the Future as a promised land which favoured heroes attain—not as something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. — C.S. Lewis · 1942Isaiah4 quotes
We are the clay, you are the potter; we are all the work of your hand. — Isaiah · 681 BCAll we like sheep have gone astray. — Isaiah · 681 BCSet thine house in order. — Isaiah · 538 BCHere am I; send me. — Isaiah · 681 BCShunryu Suzuki4 quotes
What we call "I" is just a swinging door which moves when we inhale and when we exhale. — Shunryu Suzuki · 1970A mind full of preconceived ideas, subjective intentions, or habits is not open to things as they are. — Shunryu Suzuki · 1970The mind of the beginner is empty, free of the habits of the expert, ready to accept, to doubt, and open to all the possibilities. — Shunryu Suzuki · 1970In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few. — Shunryu Suzuki · 1970Thomas a Kempis4 quotes
They consider the deed but God weighs the motive. — Thomas a Kempis · 1418For man proposes, but God disposes. — Thomas a Kempis · 1427Oh how quickly the glory of the world passes away! — Thomas a Kempis · 1427Of the two evils the lesser is always to be chosen. — Thomas a Kempis · 1427Angel3 quotes
Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city. — Angel · 90Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees. — Angel · 90He is risen. — Angel · 60Elihu3 quotes
Great things doeth he, which we cannot comprehend. — Elihu · 500 BCGreat men are not always wise. — Elihu · 500 BCFar be it from God, that he should do wickedness; and from the Almighty, that he should commit iniquity. — Elihu · 500 BCGautama Buddha3 quotes
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. — Gautama Buddha · 511 BCIf you find a man who points out faults and who reproves, follow such a wise person as you would a guide to hidden treasure. — Gautama Buddha · 520 BCBirth is suffering, aging is suffering, illness is suffering, death is suffering. — Gautama Buddha · 510 BCJonathan Edwards3 quotes
The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire. — Jonathan Edwards · 1741A little, wretched, despicable creature; a worm, a mere nothing, and less than nothing; a vile insect that has risen up in contempt against the majesty of heaven and earth? — Jonathan Edwards · 1734The heart is like a viper, hissing, and spitting poison at God. — Jonathan Edwards · 1736Martin Luther3 quotes
What can only be taught by the rod and with blows will not lead to much good; they will not remain pious any longer than the rod is behind them. — Martin Luther · 1529A mighty fortress is our God,
a bulwark never failing. — Martin Luther · 1529Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God. — Martin Luther · 1529Moses3 quotes
I have been a stranger in a strange land. — Moses · 1405 BCBut I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue. — Moses · 1405 BCHear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. — Moses · 1405 BCChristopher Hitchens2 quotes
Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a marketplace. But we have a right to remember how barbarically they behaved when they were strong and were making an offer that people could not refuse. — Christopher Hitchens · 2007Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more. — Christopher Hitchens · 2007Elijah2 quotes
How long will you waver between two opinions? — Elijah · 538 BCThere is a sound of abundance of rain. — Elijah · 538 BC