Quotes about men
men christ states
It was not for societies or states, that Christ died, but for men. C. S. Lewis
men thinking sick
A sick society must think much about politics, as a sick man must think much about his digestion.
men laughing honor
And all the time - such is the tragic comedy of our situation - we continue to clamor for those very qualities we are rendering impossible. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.
men light cards
You will say these are very small sins... [But] it does not matter how small the sins are provided that their cumulative effect is to edge the man away from the Light and out into the Nothing. Murder is no better than cards if cards can do the trick. Indeed, the safest road to Hell is the gradual one--the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts
men thinking matter
There is hope for a man who has never read Malory or Boswell or Tristam Shandy or Shakespeare's Sonnets: but what can you do with a man who says he "has read" them, meaning he has read them once, and thinks that this settles the matter?
men people ploughing
There is only one way fit for a man -- Heroism, or Master-Morality, or Violence. All the other people in between are ploughing the sand.
men differences world
A man who has been in another world does not come back unchanged. One can't put the difference into words. When the man is a friend it may become painful: the old footing is not easy to recover.
men years treasure
I have seen great beauty of spirit in some who were great sufferers. I have seen men, for the most part, grow better not worse with advancing years, and I have seen the last illness produce treasures of fortitude and meekness from most unpromising subjects.
men rose resurrection
The man in Christ rose again, not only the God.
men soul body
Man does not have a soul. He is a soul. He has a body.
men world be-a-man
To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a man.
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.