Quotes about men
men years two
There are two great truths which from this platform I have proclaimed for many years. The first is that salvation is free to every man who will have it; the second is that God gives salvation to a people whom He has chosen; and these truths are not in conflict with each other in the least degree. Charles Spurgeon
men sin speak
There is no repentance where a man can talk lightly of sin, much less where he can speak tenderly and lovingly of it.
men firsts looks
...never go to look on man till you have first looked on your God.
men thinking feet
Of the seven days God gave to us in a week, He said to take six, and use them for our business. Yet we think that we must have the seventh as well. It is like someone who, while traveling, comes upon a poor man in distress. Having but seven shillings, the generous person gives the poor man six, but when the wretch scrambles to his feet, he follows his benefactor to knock him down and steal the seventh shilling from him.
men may crosses
He bequeaths us His manger, from which to learn how God came down to man, and His cross to teach us how man may go up to God.
men brain use
He who will not use the thoughts of other men's brains proves that he has no brains of his own.
men two grace
This is the doctrine that we preach; if a man be saved, all the honor is to be given to Christ; but if a man be lost, all the blame is to be laid upon himself. You will find all true theology summed up in these two short sentences, salvation is all of the grace of God, damnation is all of the will of man.
men waiting grace
Free-will doctrine-what does it? It magnifies man into God. It declares God's purposes a nullity, since they cannot be carried out unless men are willing. It makes God's will a waiting servant to the will of man, and the whole covenant of grace dependent on human action. Denying election on the ground of injustice, it holds God to be a debtor to sinners.
men long firsts
We shall not long have love to man if we do not first and chiefly cultivate love to God.
men word-of-god millions
It is better to preach five words of God’s Word than five million words of man’s wisdom.
men said young
There was a young man who said though, it seems that I know that I know, but what I would like to see is the I that knows me when I know that I know that I know. Alan Watts
men mind he-man
The mind's the standard of the man.
men ego mind
One's life is an act with no actor, and thus it has always been recognized that the insane man that has lost his mind is a parody of the sage who has transcended his ego. If one is paranoid, the other is metanoid.
men animal brain
The animal tends to eat with his stomach, and the man with his brain. When the animal's stomach is full, he stops eating, but the man is never sure when to stop. When he has eaten as much as his belly can take, he still feels empty, he still feels an urge for further gratification.
men symbiosis machines
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can't. Alan Perlis
men variables constant
One man's constant is another man's variable.
men strive
When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it. Alan Paton
men land care
The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator. Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.
men inhumanity-to-man trying
There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man.
men hands cry-the-beloved-country
I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
men names add
It is not permissible to add to one's possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men. Such development has only one true name, and that is exploitation.
men land people
We do not work for men. We work for the land and the people. We do not even work for money.
men inhumanity-to-man way
The only way in which one can make endurable man's inhumanity to man, and man's destruction of his own environment, is to exemplify in your own lives man's humanity to man and man's reverence for the place in which he lives.
men cry-the-beloved-country broke
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
men mask function
Who? Who is but the form following the function of what, and what I am is a man in a mask. Alan Moore
men asking paradox
Evey Hammond: Who are you? V: Who? Who is but the form following the function of what and what I am is a man in a mask. Evey Hammond: Well I can see that. V: Of course you can. I'm not questioning your powers of observation I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is
men black rorschach
Once a man has seen society's black underbelly, he can never turn his back on it. Never pretend, like you do, that it doesn't exist.
men thinking world
I'm disappointed in you, Adrian. I'm very disappointed. Reassembling myself was the first trick I learned. It didn't kill Osterman. Did you really think it would kill me? I have walked across the surface of the sun. I have witnessed events so tiny and so fast, they could hardly be said to have occurred at all. But you, Adrian, you're just a man. The world's smartest man poses no more threat to me than does its smartest termite.
men numbers long
There... Poor little things. You see them? Standing with their numbers on their blank, indifferent faces, Nuremberg in miniature, the ranks of painted wooden men... Poor dominoes. Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers down it goes.
men thinking people
There are people. There are stories. The people think they shape the stories, but the reverse if often closer to the truth. Stories shape the world. They exist independently of people, and in places quite devoid of man, there may yet be mythologies.
men blood talking
By the way, I have trouble listening to what [Cheney] says sometimes because of the blood that drips from his teeth while he’s talking, but my response is this: he’s just angry because the president doesn’t shoot old men in the face. But by the way, when he was done speaking, did he just then turn into a bat and fly away? Alan Grayson
men my-fair-lady
Why can't a woman be more like a man? Alan Jay Lerner
men want doe
All to often, however, what she [the woman] does want is the man she hopes she will make out of the man she already has.