Men Quotes - Page 489

To fly we have to have resistance.

I think I'm the first man to sit on top of the world.

A theocracy is a government ruled directly by God, and for us it means "Theocracy within". In other words, trying to live by God's principles instead of just living selfishly.

Man preys on man; and you mourn for the idle tapestry that decorated a gothic pillar, and the dronish bell that summoned the fat priest to prayer. You mourn for the empty pageant of a name, when slavery flaps her wing, ... Why is our fancy to be appalled by terrific perspectives of a hell beyond the grave? - Hell stalks abroad; - the lash resounds on the slave's naked sides; and the sick wretch, who can no longer earn the sour bread of unremitting labour, steals to a ditch to bid the world a long good night.

The devotion of thought to an honest achievement makes the achievement possible. Exceptions only confirm this rule, proving that failure is occasioned by a too feeble faith.

A wicked mortal is not the idea of God. He is little else than the expression of error. To suppose that sin, lust, hatred, envy, hypocrisy, revenge, have life abiding in them, is a terrible mistake. Life and Life's idea, Truth and Truth's idea, never make men sick, sinful, or mortal.

Sometimes when family members least deserve love, they need it most. Love is not appropriately expressed in threats, accusations, expressions of disappointment, or retaliation. Real love takes time, patience, help, and continuing performances.

There is no better test as to whether a man is really preaching the New Testament gospel of salvation than the fact that some people might misunderstand it and misinterpret it to mean that it really amounts to this–that because you are saved by grace alone it does not matter at all what you do, that you can go on sinning as much as you like because it will abound all the more to the glory of grace. That is a very good test of gospel preaching. If my preaching and presentation of the gospel of salvation does not expose it to that misunderstanding, then it is not the gospel.

Most men are not scolded out of their opinion.

The labor movement was the principal force that transforme­d misery and despair into hope and progress.

He that will maintain that man's free will is able to do or work anything in spiritual cases, be they never so small, denies Christ.

A serpent is a serpent, and none the less a viper, because it is nestled in the bosom of an honest-hearted man.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is a hallucinating idiot...for he sees what no one else does: things that, to everyone else, are not there.

One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.

Most people who make movies are in real life a bitter disappointment. I, on the other hand, am so much better in real life.

Even the strongest man needs friends.

What women want is what men want. They want respect.

It is the child who makes the man, and no man exists who was not made by the child he once was.

The child should live in an environment of beauty.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

God is constantly on the move. I cannot stay where I am and follow God at the same time; responding requires movement.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

Most bereaved souls crave nourishment more tangible than prayers: they want a steak.

The principle that the majority have a right to rule the minority, practically resolves all government into a mere contest between two bodies of men, as to which of them shall be masters, and which of them slaves; a contest, that-however bloody-can, in the nature of things, never be finally closed, so long as man refuses to be a slave.

When you face the perils of weariness, carelessness, and confusion, don't pray for an easier life. Pray instead to be a stronger man or woman of God.