Philosophical Sayings
241 sayings found from the Early Modern era
It does not matter what people DO; it only matters what they BELIEVE.
No other sin exists in the world save unbelief.
Sometimes it is necessary to commit some sin out of hatred and contempt for the Devil.
You must say my sins are not mine; they are not in me at all; they are the sins of another; they are Christ's and none of my business.
Christianity is nothing but a continual exercise in feeling that you have no sin although you sin, but that your sins are thrown on Christ.
Be a sinner and SIN BOLDLY, but believe more boldly still.
The saints must be good, downright sinners.
I am but a man prone to let himself be swept off his feet by society, drunkenness, and the movements of the flesh.
You owe nothing to God except faith and confession. In all other things He lets you do whatever you like. You may do as you please, without any danger of conscience whatsoever.
I HAVE GREATER CONFIDENCE IN MY WIFE AND MY PUPILS THAN I HAVE IN CHRIST.
GOD OFTEN ACTS LIKE A MADMAN ... I look upon God no better than a scoundrel.
This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished, but it is g…
True humility does not know that it is humble. If it did, it would be proud from the contemplation of so fine a virtue.
Everything that is done in this world is done by hope.
Whoever does not know God hidden in suffering does not know God at all.
God hides in order not to be found where humans want to find God. But God also hides in order to be found where God wills to be found.
I frankly confess that even if it were possible I should not wish to have free choice given to me, or to have anything left in my own hands by which I might strive for salvation.
The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession.
If any man doth ascribe of salvation, even the very least, to the free will of man, he knoweth nothing of grace, and he hath not learnt Jesus Christ aright.
Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.