Quotes about men
men years sometimes
The very man who has argued you down, will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said C. S. Lewis
men ideas atheism
A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line.
men thinking long
As long as he doesn't convert it into action, it does not matter how much a man thinks about his repentance.
men people slavery
Aristotle said that some people were only fit to be slaves. I do not contradict him. But I reject slavery because I see no men fit to be masters.
men liberation divine-mercy
The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.
men literature different
In great literature, I become a thousand different men but still remain myself.
men musician creation
This act [creation], as it is for God, must always remain totally inconceivable to man. For we--even our poets and musicians and inventors--never, in the ultimate sense make. We only build. We always have materials to build from. All we can know about the act of creation must be derived from what we can gather about the relation of the creatures to their Creator
men errors age
A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village; the scholar has lived in many times and is therefore in some degree immune from the great cataract of nonsense that pours from the press and the microphone of his own age.
men maturity secret
When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
men thinking ambitious
If conversion to Christianity makes no improvement in a man's outward actions – if he continues to be just a snobbish or spiteful or envious or ambitious as he was before – then I think we must suspect that his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.
men knowing understanding
A man can eat his dinner without understanding exactly how food nourishes him. A man can accept what Christ has done without knowing how it works: indeed, he certainly would not know how it works until he has accepted it.
men trying sake
No man who values originality will ever be original. But try to tell the truth as you see it, try to do any bit of work as well as it can be done for the work's sake, and what men call originality will come unsought..
men judging know-how
Don't judge a man by where he is, because you don't know how far he has come.
men
A man can't be always defending the truth; there must be a time to feed on it.
men doe sake
Man is not the centre. God does not exist for the sake of man. Man does not exist for his own sake.
men religion church
The Church exists for nothing else but to draw men into Christ, to make them little Christs. If they are not doing that, all the cathedrals, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible itself, are simply a waste of time. God became Man for no other purpose.
men worship process
It is in the process of being worshipped that God communicates His presence to men.
men world body
Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they 'own' their bodies—those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that made the worlds, in which they find themselves without their consent and from which they are ejected at the pleasure of Another!
men religion done
He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.
men dying christ
Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.
men law good-man
You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society.
men needs laying-down
Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms.
men temples he-man
The man who builds a factory, builds a temple. Calvin Coolidge
men hands presidential
The more I study it [the Constitution], the more I have come to admire it, realizing that no other document devised by the hand of man ever brought so much progress and happiness to humanity.
men years advice
That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, most of it bad.
men years agriculture
The measure discriminates definitely against products which make up what has been universally considered a program of safe farming. The bill upholds as ideals of American farming the men who grow cotton, corn, rice, swine, tobacco, or wheat and nothing else. These are to be given special favors at the expense of the farmer who has toiled for years to build up a constructive farming enterprise to include a variety of crops and livestock.
men thinking luck
[The reason a man has] so much trouble with the Senate is that there isn't a man in the Senate who doesn't think he is better suited to be President than the President, and thinks he might have been President except for luck.
men horizon levels
We have found that when men and women are left free to find the places for which they are best fitted, some few of them will indeed attain less exalted stations than under a regime of privilege; but the vast multitude will rise to a higher level, to wider horizons, to worthier attainments.
men self office
It is difficult for men in high office to avoid the malady of self-delusion
men oil office
We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.
men rights progress
If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.
men important attention
Surprisingly few men are lacking in capacity, but they fail because... they are too indolent to apply themselves with the seriousness and the attention that is necessary to solve important problems.
men good-woman helping
What men owe to the love and help of good women can never be told.