We have to take the first step as though there were no God. It is no use to wait for God to help us, He will not: but immediately we arise we find He is there.
When we preach the love of God there is a danger of forgetting that the Bible reveals not first the love of God but the intense, blazing holiness of God, with His love at the center of that holiness.
The Spirit is the first power we practically experience, but the last power we come to understand.
No love of the natural heart is safe unless the human heart has been satisfied by God FIRST.
It must be God first, God second, and God third.
We talk of the second coming, half the world has never heard of the first.
Women can always be caught; that’s the first rule of the game.
It is prudence that first forsakes the wretched.
Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
What I achieve the first day can be perfectly valid, but it is not satisfying. If I can go that far spontaneously, then I must shed that result as an old skin and inquire further into the unknown, or at least the not-yet-known-to-myself.
In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.
The artist spends the first part of his life with the dead, the second with the living, and the third with himself.
Loyalty is the first law of God.
Whatever you want others to be, first be that yourself. Then, you will find others responding in like manner to you.
Don’t live every day as if it were your last. Live every day as if it were your first.
To enjoy the rainbow, first enjoy the rain.
I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the Master Work.
It’s not always enough to be forgiven by someone, in most cases we have to forgive ourselves first.
No one can go back, but everyone can go forward. And tommorow, when the Sun rises, all you will have to say to yourself is: I am going to think of this day as the first day of my life.
If you want to understand love, first learn about freedom.