Art Quote by Johann Arndt

For where thou art, there is the world itself, With every several pleasure in the world, And where thou art not, desolation.

— William Shakespeare

“I cannot come to thee but by thee, I never come from thee without thee”

— Bernard

Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not…

— James Allen

Both above and below, without and within, which way so ever thou dost turn thee, everywhere thou shalt find the Cross; and everywhere of…

— Thomas a Kempis

I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

— Saint Augustine

“The world is one of the enemies which must be fought and conquered on the way to heaven.”

— E.M. Bounds

It is, perhaps, one of the hardest struggles of the Christian life to learn this sentence-- "Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us,…

— Charles Spurgeon

“A man who has conquered himself does not need to conquer others.”

— VD

Thou has conquered, O pale Galilean.

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

“Why, conquering May prove as lordly and complete a thing In lifting upward, as in crushing low! And as a vanquished soldier yields his…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Wilt thou, then, my soul, never be good and simple and one and naked, more manifest than the body which surrounds thee?

— Marcus Aurelius

“A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within”

— Will Durant