Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.
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Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) I would rather be trampled by raging elephants than see the full wrath of my God. My repentance from...
NORM TOMLINSON We must never undervalue any person. The workman loves not that his work should be despised in his p...
SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES God himself is not secure, having given man dominion over his work.
HELEN KELLER The author should be in his work like God is in the universe--present everywhere and visible nowhere...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT The Lord Himself beholds all; His Immanent Presence is pervading everywhere.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB Nothing touches our lives but it is God Himself speaking. Do we discern His hand or only mere occurr...
OSWALD CHAMBERS A man may go into the field and say his prayer and be aware of God, or he may be in Church and be aw...
MEISTER ECKHART The real tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme ...
ARNOLD BENNETT Let each man think himself an act of God.
His mind a thought, his life a breath of God.
PHILIP JAMES BAILEY That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments.
MARY ASTELL The world is full of wonders and miracles but man takes his little hand and covers his eyes and sees...
ISRAEL BAAL SHEM The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is...
CHARLES SPURGEON Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the l...
KUO HIS Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the l...
KUO HIS When God Himself bestows His Glance of Grace, He blends us into Himself.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB God Himself is a man of war and He teaches His children how to wage war
SUNDAY ADELAJA Man's abiding happiness is not in getting anything but in giving himself up to what is greater than ...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE In the kingdom of heaven it is His work that will be crowned, not yours. Anything in you that He has...
JOHANNES TAULER He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard ...
SAMUEL ADAMS God conceals himself from the mind of man, but reveals himself to his heart.
AFRICAN PROVERB Are you destitute for the Fire of God? Nothing else matters! Possess ye God's Fire! All else is void...
PAZARIA SMITH It is said that God has a passive wrath and a full wrath. I believe America under God's passive wrat...
NORM TOMLINSON He who will not apply himself to business, eventually discovers that he means to get his bread by ch...
ISCHOMACHUS His love of himself is getting the better of his political pragmatism.
BERNARD THIBAULT The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Jem put the full force of himself into each smile, so that he seemed to be smiling with his eyes, hi...
CASSANDRA CLARE The staff is devastated. He was the kindest man, full of life, happy in his work. This is just heart...
MAGGIE BARNES Seeing that he owns absolutely nothing to ‘repay’ his debt, ‘his own consciousness’ of the f...
SYED MUHAMMAD NAQUIB AL-ATTAS God, great principle of all minor principles, God, who is Himself without a principle, could not con...
GIACOMO CASANOVA There is nothing unpremeditated, nothing neglected by God. His unsleeping eye beholds all things.
SAINT BASIL When we talk about the theology of 'God is Dead,' this means that the notion of God must be dead in ...
THICH NHAT HANH What a man has made himself he will be; his state is the result of his past life, and his heaven or ...
CATHERINE CROWE Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the so...
SAMUEL JOHNSON "If you're cup is half empty, you can blame it on others, or you can fill it up yourself.."
REZA FARIVAR To an unbelieving person nothing renders service or work for good. He himself is in servitude to all...
MARTIN LUTHER You may fancy the Lord had His own power to fall back upon. But that would have been to Him just the...
GEORGE MACDONALD I call a man rich man if his mind is full of dreams and his soul is full of resolution to realise th...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN According to Zen Buddhists, all things have their existence in The Void. The Void is that which is n...
JOSEPH P. KAUFFMAN Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not wish to sign his work.
ANATOLE FRANCE Dreams are tawdry when compared with the leading of God, and not worthy of the aura of wonder we usu...
JIM ELLIOT Cyber void is so full of amazing emptiness that makes us feel fulfilled.
MUNIA KHAN The world that we live in is a weakness. To continuously live in an environment that weakens you, on...
APURVA GAGLANI He who has no house of his own is everywhere at home.
VIKRANT PARSAI The best art is not always the most popular art, and the most popular art is never truly the best ar...
SUZY KASSEM The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feeling...
VICTOR GARBER Daniel's desk by the window is piled high with his drawings. The artwork is everything. He thinks of...
J.J. BROWN Hell is where everyone is doing his own thing. Paradise is where everyone is doing God's thing.
THOMAS HOWARD He who closes his eyes sees nothing, even in the full light of day.
LEOPOLD TREPPER When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are al...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are al...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Titles of honour add not to his worth,
Who is himself an honour of his titles.
JOHN FORD The greatest joy is joy in God. This is plain from Psalm 16:11: "You [God] will make known to me the...
JOHN PIPER Imagination is thee ability to creat witch god gave us in witch god himself created man in his image...
ENRIQUE MIGUEL ALCALA SILVA We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the gr...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence tha...
SIGMUND FREUD God Is Great. If these three words together enshrine in our mind, heart and soul, then there is neve...
ANUJ SOMANY In many cases, our need to wonder about or be told what God wants in a certain situation is nothing ...
DALLAS WILLARD …he strove to leave his life in the hands of God, and to forget himself.
ELIZABETH GASKELL His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
BIBLE God's center is everywhere, His circumference nowhere.
THOMAS WATSON Muhammad has always been standing higher than the Christianity. He does not consider god as a human ...
LEO TOLSTOY God buries His workmen but carries on His work.
CHARLES WESLEY God buries his workmen, but carries on his work
JOHN WESLEY Conducting himself ,and ever intent on ,discharging his royal duties, a king shall order all his ser...
GURU NANAK A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets ...
BEN HECHT There is only one classroom in which to learn: 1. The work of God. 2. The will of God. 3. The trustw...
ELISABETH ELLIOT My Life is boring without God
GENEREUX PHILIPUX Sondheim is my god; I love the man. I learned a great deal about writing from his work, his lyrics, ...
RICHARD LAGRAVENESE What is the Christian understanding of work?. . . [It] is that work is not, primarily, a thing one...
TIMOTHY J. KELLER A martyrdom is always the design of God, for His love of men, to warn them and to lead them, to brin...
T.S. ELIOT A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor an...
LAWRENCE PEARSALL JACKS A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor an...
FRANçOIS-RENé DE CHATEAUBRIAND God Himself underwrites your battle and has appointed His own Son "the captain of your salvation".
WILLIAM GURNALL No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires mo...
JEREMY TAYLOR Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgem...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON God desired to reveal himself in and through His creatures by communicating to them as much of His o...
ANDREW MURRAY When a fellow finds the strength to tell of his problem, an apparent believer of God would say "God ...
JECON B. NADELA Work enables God to reveal aspect of his personality hitherto unknown
SUNDAY ADELAJA But the man who is not afraid to admit everything that he sees to be wrong with himself, and yet rec...
THOMAS MERTON Let God Himself be the main attraction at church again, and let us be tireless in our insistence tha...
JAMES MACDONALD I begin by imagining
The impossible
And end by accomplishing
The impossible.
SRI CHINMOY Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward a...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON The genius of a composer is found in the notes of his music; but analyzing the notes will not reveal...
ANTHONY DE MELLO To accept Christ is to receive Him by faith as your Lord and Savior. But, strictly speaking, the gre...
H. A. IRONSIDE Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD Man work is his place of his calling and purpose
SUNDAY ADELAJA After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have n...
ISAAC D'ISRAELI After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have n...
ISAAC DISRAELI He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices.
CARLO GOLDONI A man though carrying God may be of no worth to himself, to his family, to his nation and to the peo...
SUNDAY ADELAJA A change of work is the best rest.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE There is no deception on the part of the woman, where a man bewilders himself: if he deludes his own...
JOHN GOWER The patriot who feels himself in the service of God, who acknowledges Him in all his ways, has the p...
FRANCIS SCOTT KEY Numberless marks does man bear in his soul, that he is fallen and estranged from God; but nothing gi...
GEORGE WHITEFIELD This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Want is an empty void — your real value is full and abundant.
BRYANT MCGILL Today his commercial work is probably his most interesting. Today his commercial work is considered ...
LEE BRUMBAUGH And Aaron shall offer his bullock of the sin offering, which is for himself, and make an atonement f...
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SENECA Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms -- you’ll be able to use them better when you’re older.
SENECA Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
SENECA Suppose we've chosen the wrong god
SENECA I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
SENECA Time is like a handful of sand- the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers
SENECA Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.
SENECA Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature.
SENECA Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher.
SENECA Non est ad astra mollis e terris via" - "There is no easy way from the earth to the stars
SENECA It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.
SENECA It takes a good deal of character to judge a person by his future instead of his past
SENECA One hand washes the other.
(Manus Manum Lavat)
SENECA True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse our...
SENECA What need is there to weep over parts of life? The whole of it calls for tears.
SENECA If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.
SENECA Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
SENECA Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness
SENECA All cruelty springs from hard-heartedness and weakness.
SENECA He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
SENECA He who profits by a crime commits it
SENECA You are your choices.
SENECA Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.
SENECA Calamity is virtue's opportunity.
SENECA This body is not a home but an inn, and that only briefly.
SENECA A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.
SENECA Every guilty person is his own hangman.
SENECA Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if t...
SENECA A great fortune is a great slavery.
SENECA Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
SENECA He who boasts of his ancestry praises the merits of another
SENECA Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember
SENECA Life's like a play; it's not the length but the excellence of the acting that matters
SENECA It is proof of a bad cause when it is applauded by the mob.
SENECA It goes far toward making a man faithful to let him understand that you think him so; and he that do...
SENECA If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
SENECA Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the ...
SENECA We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
SENECA He who is brave is free.
SENECA True happiness is to understand our duties toward God and man; to enjoy the present, without anxious...
SENECA It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture tha...
SENECA It's not hard to find the truth. What is hard is not to run away from it once you have found it.
SENECA Death's the discharge of our debt of sorrow
SENECA As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without c...
SENECA I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and t...
SENECA Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor's wife - demerit, an uncomfortable bed,...
SENECA Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?
SENECA If you judge, investigate
SENECA He is most powerful who has power over himself
SENECA Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tel...
SENECA A sword is never a killer, it is a tool in the killer's hands
SENECA Time discovers truth.
SENECA No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
SENECA Fate leads the willing and drags along the unwilling.
SENECA While we teach, we learn.
SENECA Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
SENECA Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then ...
SENECA Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both exist...
SENECA Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but wh...
SENECA To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.
SENECA There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
SENECA It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.
SENECA There are none more abusive to others than they that lie most open to it themselves; but the humor g...
SENECA Abstinence is easier than temperance
SENECA Whom they have injured, they also hate.
SENECA While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with winged days the whe...
SENECA And this, too, affords no small occasion for anxieties - if you are bent on assuming a pose and neve...
SENECA Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgement.
SENECA It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die
SENECA The best ideas are common property.
SENECA The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the int...
SENECA Toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other.
SENECA Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also.
SENECA Speech is the mirror of the mind.
(Imago Animi Sermo Est)
SENECA It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.
SENECA You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.
SENECA Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
SENECA It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to cont...
SENECA Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
SENECA Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
SENECA We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
SENECA Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take...
SENECA Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
SENECA Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.
SENECA Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.
SENECA If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the sou...
SENECA If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul...
SENECA If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul...
SENECA We learn not in the school, but in life
SENECA Life without the courage for death is slavery
SENECA The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light things which now lie...
SENECA The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.
SENECA All cruelty springs from weakness.
SENECA The pleasures of the palate deal with us like the Egyptian thieves, who strangle those whom they emb...
SENECA There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courag...
SENECA A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do...
SENECA Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us that injury that provokes it.
SENECA What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.
SENECA It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man...
SENECA I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for...
SENECA To see a man fearless in dangers. untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, an...
SENECA There is a noble manner of being poor and who does not know it will never be rich.
SENECA Most powerful is he who has himself in his power.
SENECA We are so vain as to set the highest value upon those things to which nature has assigned the lowest...
SENECA The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the pres...
SENECA Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of app...
SENECA What once were vices are manners now.
SENECA If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
SENECA There is no great genius free from some tincture of madness.
SENECA While we are postponing, life speeds by.
SENECA Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.
SENECA Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
SENECA What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.
SENECA It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things...
SENECA Everything may happen. (Omnio fieri possent.)
SENECA It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and prefer things in measure to things in exces...
SENECA Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
SENECA It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
SENECA Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
SENECA The foremost art of kings is the ability to endure hatred.
SENECA What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.. Epictetu...
SENECA Love is like an earthquake-unpredictable, a little scary, but when the hard part is over you realize...
SENECA Fidelity purchased with money, money can destroy.
SENECA That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
SENECA To greed, all nature is insufficient.
SENECA Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.
SENECA What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing--to live in accord with his nature.
SENECA We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passi...
SENECA We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passi...
SENECA We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live wit...
SENECA We most often go astray on a well trodden and much frequented road.
SENECA Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.
SENECA To be feared is to fear: no one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjo...
SENECA To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be i...
SENECA There is nothing so bitter that a patient mind cannot find some solace in it.
SENECA The path of precept is long, that of example short and effectual.
SENECA The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself.
SENECA The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.
SENECA The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
SENECA The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error.
SENECA The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.
SENECA Injustice never rules forever
SENECA A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.
SENECA Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man...
SENECA It is quality rather than quantity that matters.
SENECA It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
SENECA It is better, of cours, to know useless things than to know nothing.
SENECA He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
SENECA Without an adversary prowess shrivels. We see how great and efficient it really is only when it show...
SENECA If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.
SENECA Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
SENECA If virtue precede us every step will be safe.
SENECA If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favourable to him.
SENECA I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
SENECA I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge.
SENECA He will live ill who does not know how to die well.
SENECA He who spares the wicked injures the good.
SENECA Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order.
SENECA Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
SENECA Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labour the body.
SENECA Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
SENECA Delay not; swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours.
SENECA Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
SENECA Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then ...
SENECA Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have received.
SENECA Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before...
SENECA As was his language so was his life.
SENECA An unpopular rule is never long maintained.
SENECA All art is an imitation of nature.
SENECA One should count each day a separate life.
SENECA One hand washes the other.
(Manus Manum Lavet)
SENECA Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable.
SENECA Not to feel one's misfortunes is not human, not to bear them is not manly.
SENECA No one can wear a mask for very long.
SENECA Many things have fallen only to rise higher.
SENECA Life without the courage for death is slavery.
SENECA Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.
SENECA Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.
SENECA It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one.
SENECA It is rash to condemn where you are ignorant.
SENECA It is pleasant at times to play the madman.
SENECA It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they a...
SENECA It is a youthful failing to be unable to control one's impulses.
SENECA It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen; that is the common right ...
SENECA It better befits a man to laugh than to lament over it.
SENECA It is not the man who has too little that is poor, but the one who hankers after more.
SENECA Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've be...
SENECA For what prevents us from saying that the happy life is to have a mind that is free, lofty, fearless...
SENECA It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.
SENECA Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.
SENECA There is no delight in owning anything unshared.
SENECA A man who suffers or stresses before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary. Kim, Age 11 -...
SENECA What were once vices are the fashion of the day.
SENECA Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many ...
SENECA This body is not a home but an inn, and that only briefly
SENECA Life is warfare.
SENECA They that mistake life's accessories for life itself are like them that go too fast in a maze: their...
SENECA I truly enjoy no more of the world's good things than what I willingly distribute to the needy
SENECA A lesson that is never learned can never be too often taught
SENECA What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choi...
SENECA