“The work of the Spirit is to impart life, to implant hope, to give liberty, to testify of Christ, to guide us into all truth, to teach us all things, to comfort the believer, and to convict the world of sin.” WorldGivingSpiritChristSinLibertyTeachHolyComfortAll ThingsGuidesBelieverHoly SpiritImpartConvictsImplants Book:The Secret of Success in the Christian Life Source: The Secret of Success in the Christian Life
“Our All is at Stake, and the little Conveniencys and Comforts of Life, when set in Competition with our Liberty, ought to be rejected not with Reluctance but with Pleasure.” LittlesPleasureLibertyOughtComfortCompetitionStakesRejectedReluctance Author:George Mason
“I had to learn that there is more to the human being than material comfort, more than success, more even than national spirit or patriotism. That in any being worthy of being human there is also a demand for justice, for liberty, and that justice needs the evidence of all our lives, liberty is one and indivisible and collective, and no one can talk of justice solely for expediency's sake, nor of liberty while human beings, anywhere else on earth, are still in bondage.” NeedsHumansStillsEarthSpiritJusticeFreedomHuman BeingsLibertyOur LivesMaterialsComfortDemandEvidenceSakeWorthyCollectivesBeing HumanBondageIndivisibleExpediency Author:Han Suyin
“The bourgeois treasures nothing more highly than the self.... And so at the cost of intensity he achieves his own preservation andsecurity. His harvest is a quiet mind which he prefers to being possessed by God, as he prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to that deathly inner consuming fire.” MindSelfPleasureLibertyFireAchieveComfortCostQuietTreasurePleasantIntensityPossessedHarvestPreservationConvenienceTemperatureConsumingBourgeoisSteppenwolf Book:Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays Source: Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays
“The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.” PleasureLibertyFireComfortPleasantNobilityConvenienceTemperatureConsumingBourgeois Author:Hermann Hesse
“And it is in this darkness, when there is nothing left in us that can please or comfort our own minds, when we seem to be useless and worthy of all contempt, when we seem to have failed, when we seem to be destroyed and devoured, it is then that the deep and secret selfishness that is too close to us for us to identify is stripped away from our souls. It is in this darkness that we find liberty. It is in this abandonment that we are made strong. This is the night which empties us and makes us pure.” MindMadeSoulSeemsNightLeftStrongSecretLibertyDarknessComfortPleasePureWorthyDestroyedSelfishnessUselessContemptAbandonment Author:Thomas Merton
“Freedom cannot always continue in comfort and convenience, cannot be assured without sacrifice, without truth and decency, without willingness to work, without downright honesty and honor, and readiness to keep the commandments and live within the law...there is no liberty without a real respect for law; no liberty if we forget God, or fail to remember the principles on which freedom is founded.” IfsRealRememberLawForgetLibertyPrinciplesFailingSacrificeHonestyHonorComfortWillingnessCommandmentsAssuredDecencyConvenienceReadinessWithout Sacrifice Author:Richard L. Evans
“If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.” IfsValuesPoliticsNationsLosesFreedomLibertyComfortEconomicsLibertarianIronyPatrioticLibertarianismFreedom And LibertyFreedom LibertyLimited GovernmentHuman FreedomRights And FreedomsLibertarian PartyEternal VigilancePrice Of FreedomGovernment And Society Author:W. Somerset Maugham
“In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all – security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.” GivingEndsWisdomWantedLostResponsibilityLibertySecurityComfortComfortableLibertarianTyrannyLibertarianismAthensLibertarian PartyAtheniansComfortable Life Author:Edward Gibbon
“We must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labor and in our amusements...if we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.” PeopleIfsGovernmentRunningChoicesLibertyEconomyDrinkComfortLaborCaringDebtConfusionMeatAmusementPretenseServitudeOur ChoicesDebt By Founding Fathers Author:Thomas Jefferson
“Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.... Do not be frightened from this inquiry from any fear of its consequences. If it ends in the belief that there is no God, you will find incitements to virtue in the comfort and pleasantness you feel in its exercise.” IfsFeelsEndsReasonBeliefExistenceLibertyVirtueExerciseComfortConsequenceFrightenedInquiryBoldnessIntriguingThere Is No GodHomageFounding Fathers ReligionFounding Fathers AtheistBlindfoldedIncitement Author:Thomas Jefferson
“Never could an increase of comfort or security be a sufficient good to be bought at the price of liberty.” LibertySecurityComfortIncreaseSufficient Author:Hilaire Belloc