Completing Quote by John Milton

“For the mindful god does detest untimely growth.”

— Friedrich Hölderlin

God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.

— William Law

“Obedience is bondage, if God wants to be adored he should make himself more loving.”

— Laura Whitcomb

Vicious habits are so great a stain to human nature, and so odious in themselves, that every person actuated by right reason would avoid…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“But we ever find, that even those who have not been deficient in their zeal for piety, nor in reverence and sobriety in handling…

— John Calvin

To have striven so hard, to have molded a public personality out of so amorphous an identity, to have sustained that superhuman effort only…

— Henry A. Kissinger

God is on the side of virtue; for whoever dreads punishment suffers it, and whoever deserves it, dreads it .

— Charles Caleb Colton

When we believe that we ought to be satisfied, rather than God glorified, we set God below ourselves, imagine that He should submit His…

— Charles Spurgeon

“We may think we are centering our lives on God when we are really making Him a means to self-esteem.”

— John Piper

“Liberation from the tyranny of the body contributes to greatness, but just as much to greatness in sin as to greatness in virtue.”

— Bertrand Russell

“What pretty oracles nature yields us on this text, in the face and behaviour of children, babes, and even brutes! That divided and rebel…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Arrogance is the one core trait which keeps a person away from God.

— Pacifiersucker