Men Quotes - Page 678

Prayer is exhaling the spirit of man and inhaling the spirit of God.

Neutral men are the devil's allies.

The same arguments which go to show that knowledge is power, that the condition of a people is improved in proportion as the masses are educated, have their application with equal weight to the deaf.

The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.

The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases

To say that a thing is beautiful is simply an act of faith, not a measurement on some kind of scale.

The perception of duration itself presupposes a duration of perception.

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

My wit is sharper then the finest mustache, and when I walk among men I make truths ring like spurs.

All great art contains an element of the irrational.

Become friendly with the present moment, because if you do not become friendly with the present moment you cannot become friendly with life.

The formless dimension of life is this moment. This moment is timeless and formless - the eternal itself.

Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.

When you are not honoring the present moment by allowing it to be, you are creating drama.

A man is not expected to love his country, lest he make an ass of himself. Yet our country, seen through the mists of smog, is curiously lovable, in somewhat the way an individual who has got himself into an unconscionable scrape seems lovable - or at least deserving of support.

What is the chief end of preaching? I like to think it is this: It is to give men and women a sense of God and His presence.

I wish that we lived in a time and a generation where people would stop viewing my honesty as overly emotional. People always act like I spend my life crying in a dark room. I don't, I'm good. I'm a man.

Your body isn't just a body. It's an ecosystem.

Where's the man could ease a heart Like a satin gown?

When I came to Delhi first and said, "This is not India. And then I was taken to Varanasi and there I loved, loved the culture. It was a beautiful journey. The way the people dressed - even the poorest people, and the fabrics! With vegetable dyes, and I was fascinated by the color. But in the end I loved the men - all in white - so many shades of white. And I said, "What am I going to do? A color collection or a white collection?" I finally did a neutral white collection.

I have tremendous respect for women.

The magnitude of the atomic weight determines the character of the element, just as the magnitude of the molecule determines the character of a compound body.

Once a man has truly experienced the mercy of God in his life he will henceforth aspire only to serve.

Monks, nuns, long-term spinsters and bachelors and permanent homosexuals are all, in a reproductive sense, aberrant. Society has bred them, but they have failed to return the compliment.

At last concluded that no creature was more miserable than man, for that all other creatures are content with those bounds that nature set them, only man endeavors to exceed them.