The following is a selection of quotes I’ve encountered during my personal study. They are some of my favorites. I acknowledge they are mostly voices within the orbit of the Christian faith, further acknowledging (and maintaining) that as a result they are some of the richest and most edifying.

I hope you enjoy them as much as I have.

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The richest life among men is the life of him who knows the most.

— Herman Bavinck, The Wonderful Works of God

And a theologian, a true theologian, is one who speaks out of God, through God, about God, and does this always to the glorification of His name.

— Herman Bavinck, The Wonderful Works of God

The darker the night, the more brightly shine the stars, and good men are never more precious than in evil times.

— Charles Spurgeon, from “Noah’s Eminence”, Preached October 19, 1873

It was at this point that Bilbo stopped. Going on from there was the bravest thing he ever did. The tremendous things that happened afterwards were as nothing compared to it. He fought the real battle in the tunnel alone, before he ever saw the vast danger that lay in wait.

— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

You will ever remember that all the end of study is to make you a good man and a useful citizen.

— John Adams, A letter to John Quincy Adams

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

— Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics