Ambition Quote by Charles Spurgeon

It is of course evident that everything in one's religious life depends upon the sort of God one worships. The character of the worshiper…

— Hannah Whitall Smith

When the anger of the gods is incurred, wealth or power only bring more devastating punishment.

— Euripides

Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on which we…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Where God's Spirit does not reign, there is no humility, and men ever swell with inward pride.

— John Calvin

Are gods more ruthless than mortals? Have they no mercy for youth? no love for the souls who have loved them?

— Charles Kingsley

Whatever a man imagines he can attain, if he doesn't become too arrogant and encroach on the rights of the gods.

— Charles Lindbergh

A wicked mortal is not the idea of God. He is little else than the expression of error. To suppose that sin, lust, hatred,…

— Mary Baker Eddy

Man is a feeble creature, to whom only submission and worship are besoming. Pride is insolence, and belief in human power is impiety

— Bertrand Russell

“Too many of us focus on the outward structure of character and conduct without taking the time to build the inward foundation of devotion…

— Jerry Bridges

Even virtue itself, all perfect as it is, requires to be inspirited by passion; for duties are but coldly performed which are but philosophically…

— Anna Brownell Jameson

“Realizing the seriously ruthless, venomous habits and agendas of evil always instills a more fierce passion and longing for a closer God. Men, out…

— Criss Jami

The Greatest evils inflicted by man over the face of the Earth are wrought not by the self-seekers, the pleasure lovers, or the merely…

— Robert Morrison MacIver