Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matthew Simpson

If you live for fame, men may turn against you.

Matthew Simpson

Man wants to be reconciled to God; wants to know that the past is forgiven.

Matthew Simpson

If an honest man is the noblest work of God, then Mr. Lincoln's title to high nobility is clear and unquestioned.

Matthew Simpson

If, then, faith widens the connections, it elevates the man.

Matthew Henson

I think I'm the first man to sit on top of the world.

Matthew Henson

There can be no conquest to the man who dwells in the narrow and small environment of a groveling life, and there can be no vision to the man the horizon of whose vision is limited by the bounds of self. But the great things of the world, the great accomplishments of the world, have been achieved by men who had high ideals and who have received great visions. The path is not easy, the climbing is rugged and hard, but the glory at the end is worthwhile.

Matthew Henry

The remains of great and good men, like Elijah's mantle, ought to be gathered up and preserved by their survivors, that as their works follow them in the reward of them, they may stay behind in their benefit.

Matthew Henry

Were a man to live as long as Methuselah, and to spend all his days in the highest delights sin can offer, one hour of the anguish and tribulation that must follow, would far outweigh them.

Matthew Henry

We cannot expect too little from man nor too much from God.

Matthew Henry

As if men did not die fast enough, they are ingenious at finding out ways to destroy one another.

Matthew Henry

The greatest of men must turn beggars when they have to do with Christ.

Matthew Henry

To a good man, God gives not only wisdom and knowledge, but joy.

Matthew Henry

The anger of a meek man is like fire struck out of steel, hard to be got out, and when it is, soon gone.

Matthew Henry

A good man is willing to know the worst of himself, and particularly under affliction, desires to be told wherefore God contends with him and what God designs in correcting him.

Matthew Henry

Esther came to a proud imperious man; we come to the God of love and grace.

Matthew Henry

Men may die like lambs and yet have their place forever with the goats.

Matthew Henry

That which is won ill, will never wear well, for there is a curse attends it, which will waste it; and the same corrupt dispositions which incline men to the sinful ways of getting, will incline them to the like sinful ways of spending.

Matthew Henry

It is a sin against God not to pray for the Israel of God, especially for those of them that are under our charge. Good men are afraid of the guilt of omissions ( I Samuel 12).

Matthew Henry

Men cannot expect to do ill and fare well, but to find that done to them which they did to others.

Matthew Henry

Death to a good man is his release from the imprisonment of this world, and his departure to the enjoyments of another world.

Matthew Henry

Nothing can make a man truly great but being truly good, and partaking of God's holiness.

Matthew Henry

The counsels and decrees of God do not truckle to the frail and fickle will of man.

Matthew Henry

The meek are those who quietly submit themselves to God, to His Word and to His rod, who follow His directions, and comply with His designs, and are gentle toward all men.

Matthew Henry

You have been asked to take notice of the sayings of dying men—this is mine: that a life spent in the service of God and communion with Him is the most pleasant life that anyone can live in this world.

Matthew Henry

It was the greatest honor God did to man that he made man in the image of God; but it is the greatest dishonor man has done to God that he has made God in the image of man.

Matt Ridley

Considering the way evolution works, it should not be surprising if every man has got a Don Giovanni somewhere inside him.

Maya Rudolph

Without a doubt in sketch comedy there are fewer women than men.

Maynard James Keenan

I'm not an educated man. I only know what I'm told, and I'm not told that much; I have no frame of reference for how to place things in history be a responsible leader. All I can do is be an artist.

Maya Angelou

It is imperative that young white men and women study the black American history. It is imperative that blacks and whites study the Asian American history.

Maya Angelou

If men are God's gift to women, then God must really love gag gifts.

Maya Angelou

I've never had a dislike for men. I've been badly treated by some. But I've been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.

Maya Angelou

The most noble cause known to man is the liberation of the human mind and spirit.

Maya Angelou

I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.