Able Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried.

— Anonymous

The great ideals of the past failed not by being outlived (which must mean over-lived), but by not being lived enough. Mankind has not…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Universalism as an ideal is as old as nay, is probably much more ancient than the Christian ideal.

— Arthur Keith

As Christians, I challenge you. Have a great aim - have a high standard - make Jesus your ideal...make Him an ideal not merely…

— Eric Liddell

An age deficient in idealism has ever been one of immorality and superficial attainment, since without the sense of ideas, nobility of character becomes…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

When we think of the ideal, we do not add virtue to virtue, but think of Jesus Christ, so that the standard of human…

— E. Stanley Jones

Christianity has taken the part of all the weak, the low, the botched; it has made an ideal out of antagonism to all the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Human nature simply cannot subsist without a hope and aim of some kind; as the sanity of the Old Testament truly said, where there…

— G.K. Chesterton

The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.

— James Russell Lowell

If conversion to Christianity makes no improvement in a man's outward actions – if he continues to be just a snobbish or spiteful or…

— Anonymous

It is curious that Christianity, which is idealism, is sturdily defended by the brokers, and steadily attacked by the idealists.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.

— Friedrich Nietzsche