Men Quotes - Page 656

The sin of Adam did not make the condemnation of all men merely possible; it was the ground of their actual condemnation. So the righteousness of Christ did not make the salvation of men merely possible, it secured the actual salvation of those for whom He wrought.

Often, without being at all aware of it, men judge themselves, not by God's rule, but by their own.

The first lesson in civics is that efficient government begins at home.

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

My gran had always told me that a woman--any woman worth her salt--could do whatever she had to.

I head a nation of a million presidents.

Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be "lifelong"? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation?

The cross stands as the final symbol that no evil exists that God cannot turn into a blessing. He is the living Alchemist who can take the dregs from the slag-heaps of life - disappointment, frustration, sorrow, disease, death, economic loss, heartache - and transform the dregs into gold.

The verses talked about other Prophets as brothers preaching the same unifying script of mankind, showing every man and woman the way to Paradise. I saw the names of Jesus, of Moses, of Abraham, of Jacob, of Noah and of course, crucially, the name of this last messenger, the last Messenger of God, Muhammad.

Femininity is a lot of power. It's allure. And the moment you start competing directly with a man, it's not that fun.

Modern man is sick because he is not whole.

In life there is nothing more common than talent and intelligence. What is missing is passion, persistence, commitment, and dedication.

Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inherent in any personality. To be celebrated, to be wealthy, to have power requires access to major institutions.

The central miracle asserted by Christians is the incarnation. They say that God became man.

A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line.

There are those who feel an imperative need to believe, for whom the values of a belief are proportionate not to its truth, but to its definiteness. Incapable of either admitting the existence of contrary judgments or of suspending their own, they supply the place of knowledge by turning other men's conjectures into dogmas.

The Indians said the bones were those of a race of people ... three times the size of a man.

If every man would help his neighbor, no man would be without help.

I like feet. I definitely have a fetish. I love to see a man's bare foot, but it's got to be taken care of. If they're not well manicured, you've got to wonder what the rest of him is like. [laughs] I don't want to get in bed with somebody and feel his gnarly feet.

The secret of the mystery is: God is always greater. No matter how great we think Him to be, His love is always greater.

The shortcoming of hanging pawns is that they present a convenient target for attack. As the exchange of men proceeds, their potential strength lessens and during the endgame they turn out, as a rule, to be weak.

No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white man’s food, speaks the white man’s language, and professes the white man’s religion.

I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.

When I came up to bat with three men on and two outs in the ninth, I looked in the other team's dugout and they were already in street clothes.