Quotes about men
men broken water
Men are in a restless pursuit after satisfaction and earthly things. They have no forethought for their eternal state, the present hour absorbs them. They turn to another and another of earth's broken cisterns, hoping to find water, where not a drop was ever discovered yet. Charles Spurgeon
men thinking progress
Satisfaction with results will be the [death] knell of progress. No man is good who thinks that he cannot be better. He has no holiness who thinks that he is holy enough.
men devil idle
Idle men tempt the devil to tempt them.
men stories he-man
We have all heard the story of the man who preached so well and lived so badly, that when he was in the pulpit everybody said he ought never to come out again, and when he was out of it they all declared he never ought to enter it again.
men humanity
He is not humanity deified. He is not Godhead humanized. He is God. He is man. He is all that God is, and all that man is as God created Him.
men arrows people
A sermon often does a man most good when it makes him most angry. Those people who walk down the aisles and say, "I will never hear that man again," very often have an arrow rankling in their breast.
men grace feels
We hold that man is never so near grace as when he begins to feel he can do nothing at all.
men understanding matter
The gospel is a reasonable system, and it appeals to men's understanding; it is a matter for thought and consideration, and it appeals to the conscience and reflecting powers.
men heaven should
If any man will preach as he should preach, his work will take more out of him than any other labor under heaven.
men israel order
"Stand still" - keep the posture of an upright man, ready for action, expecting further orders, cheerfully and patiently awaiting the directing voice; and it will not be long ere God shall say to you, as distinctly as Moses said it to the people of Israel, "Go forward."
men rail ifs
If you hear a man rail at the Bible, you can usually conclude that he never reads it.
men law able
God be thanked when the Law so works as to take off the sinner from all confidence in himself! To make the leper confess that he is incurable is going a great way toward compelling him to go to that divine Savior, who alone is able to heal him. This is the whole end of the Law toward men whom God will save.
men yesterday today
A man who says, 'I was wrong,' really in effect says, 'I am a little wiser today than I was yesterday.
men providence serving-god
No life can surpass that of a man who quietly continues to serve God in the place where providence has placed him.
men champion best-of-me
J.C. Ryle is an evangelical champion...One of the bravest and best of men.
men names slumber
Shall we keep men in a fool's paradise? Shall we lull them into soft slumbers from which they will awake in hell? Are we to become helpers of their damnation by our smooth speeches? In the name of God, we will not!
men hands lovely
To a hungry man, Christ is very lovely when He has a loaf of bread in His hand.
men heaven dry
Men turn their faces to hell, and hope to get to heaven; why don't they walk into the horsepond, and hope to be dry?.
men grace covenant
This is now a covenant of pure grace; let no man attempt to mix works with it.
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.
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.