Men Quotes - Page 974

Unless men see a beauty and delight in the worship of God, they will not do it willingly.

The Lord is the accomplishment of everything good that I think, feel and do.

...we shall incur no slight injury, but rather great danger, if we rashly yield ourselves to the inclinations of men who aim at exciting strife and tumults, so as to draw us away from what is good? Let us cleave, therefore, to those who cultivate peace with godliness?

Our Lord humbled without humiliation His lofty station which yet could not be humbled, and condescends to His servants, with a condescension ineffable and incomprehensible. God being perfect becomes perfect man, and brings to perfection the newest of all new things (cf. Eccles 1:10), the only new thing under the sun, through which the boundless might of God is manifested. For what greater thing is there than that God should become man?

Go quietly alone, no harm will befall you.

For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone.

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.

The crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs.

The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.

The government, both state and federal, has a duty to be reasonable and accommodating.

There is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes.

I have pleaded (labor's) case, not in the quavering tones of a feeble mendicant asking alms, but in the thundering voice of the captain of a mighty host, demanding the rights to which free men are entitled.

Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.

Our task is not to make societies safe for globalization, but to make the global system safe for decent societies.

By far the most numerous and most flagrant violations of personal liberty and individual rights are performed by governments... The major crimes throughout history, the ones executed on the largest scale, have been committed not by individuals or bands of individuals but by governments, as a deliberate policy of those governments-that is, by the official representatives of governments, acting in their official capacity.

Brutes gaze on sights, they are arrested by sounds; and what they see and what they hear are sights and sounds only. The intellectof man, on the contrary, energises as well as his eye or ear, and perceives in sights or sounds something beyond them. It seizes and unites what the senses present to it; it grasps and forms what need not be seen or heard except in detail. It discerns in lines and colors, or in tones, what is beautiful and what is not. It gives them a meaning, and invests them with an idea.

Once again, I was reminded that Tally was the prettiest girl I'd ever met, and when she smiled at me my mind went blank. Once you've seen a pretty girl naked, you feel a certain attachment to her.

Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them.

England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses.

Let us see that our knowledge of Christ be not a powerless, barren, unpractical knowledge: O that, in its passage from our understanding to our lips, it might powerfully melt, sweeten, and ravish our hearts! Remember, brethren, a holy calling never saved any man, without a holy heart; if our tongues only be sanctified, our whole man must be damned. We must be judged by the same gospel, and stand at the same bar, and be sentenced to the same terms, and dealt with as severely as any other men.

Forward, forward, men! Drive those fellows out of those woods! Forward! For God's sake forward!

Real men stay faithful. They don't have time to look for other women because they're too busy looking for new ways to love their own.

And so it is to the printing press--to the recorder of mans deeds, the keeper of his conscience, the courier of his news-- that we look for strength and assistance, confident that with your help man will be what he was born to be: free and independent.

Superstars think like superstars long before the fans or the press anoint them.

It takes great courage to be vulnerable. It takes enormous strength to be a real woman.