Quotes about men
men world be-a-man
To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a man. C. S. Lewis
men shadow important
Human culture has always had to exist under the shadow of something infinitely more important than itself. If men had postponed the search for knowledge and beauty until they were secure, the search would never have begun.
men want knaves
A man who first tried to guess 'what the public wants,' and then preached that as Christianity because the public wants it, would be a pretty mixture of fool and knave
men miracle dying
Christ did not die for man because they were intrinsically worth dying for, but because he is intrinsically love, and therefore loves infinitely.
men miracle matter
Besides reasoning about matters of fact, men also make moral judgements.
men moments turns
Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man.
men thought-provoking stronger
Each new power won by man is a power over man as well. Each advance leaves him weaker as well as stronger.
men guilt code-of-ethics
All men alike stand condemned, not by alien codes of ethics, but by their own, and all men therefore are conscious of guilt.
men facts morality
Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience.
men morality made
Morality or duty never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others.
men heaven humanity
To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth; to enter hell is to be banished from humanity. What is cast (or casts itself) into hell is not a man: it is 'remains.'
men differences kind
[the difference between the old and the new education being] in a word, the old was a kind of propagation-men transmitting manhood to men; the new is merely propaganda.
men resistance littles
A man with an obsession is a man who has very little sales resistance.
men rights differences
Thus the criminal ceases to be a person, a subject of rights and duties, and becomes merely an object on which society can work. And this is, in principle, how Hitler treated the Jews. They were objects; killed not for ill desert but because, on his theories, they were a disease in society. If society can mend, remake, and unmake men at its pleasure, its pleasure may, of course, be humane or homicidal. The difference is important. But, either way, rulers have become owners.
men thinking animal
I think we must fully face the fact that when Christianity does not make a man very much better, it makes him very much worse... Conversion may make of one who was, if no better, no worse than an animal, something like a devil.
men decent decent-man
You weren't a decent man and you didn't do your best. We none of us were and none of us did.
men beast
Nothing in Man is either worse or better for being shared with the beasts.
men thinking anxiety
There is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a human's mind against the Enemy. He wants men to be concerned with what they do; our business is to keep them thinking about what will happen to them.
men people atheism
There comes a moment when people who have been dabbling in religion ('man's search for God'!) suddenly draw back. Supposing we really found Him? We never meant it to come to that! Worse still, supposing He had found us?
men law giver
Men became scientific because they expected Law in Nature, and they expected Law in Nature because they believed in a Law Giver.
men holiness mourn
The holier a man becomes, the more he mourns over the unholiness which remains in him.
men animal doe
The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.
men church christ
The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ.
men miracle sake
Christianity does not involve the belief that all things were made for man. it does involve the belief that god loves man and for his sake became man and died.
men thinking democracy
Democracy demands that little men should not take big ones too seriously; it dies when it is full of little men who think they are big themselves.
men care speak
The Psalmists in telling everyone to praise God are doing what all men do when they speak of what they care about.
men perfect enemy
God has landed on this enemy-occupied world in human form...The perfect surrender and humiliation was undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and humiliation because He was man.
men church next
Surely you know that if a man can't be cured of churchgoing, the next best thing is to send him all over the neighbourhood looking for the church that "suits" him until he becomes a taster or connoisseur of churches.
men cities world
No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city.
men land doe
Man begets, but land does not beget. Cecil Rhodes
men ninety-nine hundred
Ask any man what nationality he would prefer to be, and ninety nine out of a hundred will tell you that they would prefer to be Englishmen
men closets barbecue
I don't know why men like to barbecue so much. Maybe its the only thing they can cook. Or maybe they're just closet pyromaniacs. Cecelia Ahern
men years looks
Why do we insist women are cast 10 years younger than the role they're playing? Men don't know what a 30-year-old is supposed to look like because on TV she's always 20. Carrie Coon