Quotes about men
men rewards
There is no reward from God to those who seek it from men. Charles Spurgeon
men witness
Never, for fear of feeble man, restrain your witness.
men devil found
The devil never tempted a man whom he found judiciously employed.
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.
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 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 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 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 yesterday today
A man who says, 'I was wrong,' really in effect says, 'I am a little wiser today than I was yesterday.
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 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 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 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 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 variables constant
One man's constant is another man's variable. Alan Perlis
men inhumanity-to-man trying
There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man. Alan Paton
men asking paradox
Evey Hammond: Who are you? V: Who? Who is but the form following the function of what and what I am is a man in a mask. Evey Hammond: Well I can see that. V: Of course you can. I'm not questioning your powers of observation I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is Alan Moore
men water sahara
That's a bit like asking a man crawling across the Sahara whether he would prefer Perrier or Malvern water. Alan Bennett
men buckets incapability
History is a commentary on the various and continuing incapabilities of men. What is history? History is women following behind with the bucket.
men culture okay
We live in a patriarchal culture. It's okay for women to be objectified but not for men. Alan Ball
men hypocrisy cheerful
If a man must make himself appear cheerful; he must know why he is miserable. Al Smith
men
No man kills himself unless there is something wrong with his life. Al Alvarez
men hunger-and-thirst camels
As a camel beareth labor, and heat, and hunger, and thirst, through deserts of sand, and fainteth not; so the fortitude of a man shall sustain him through all perils. Akhenaton
men angry-man earthquakes
As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him.
men man-of-god dies
When a man of God dies, nothing of God dies. Aiden Wilson Tozer
men unions spirit
True religion is removed from diet and days, from garments and ceremonies, and placed where it belongs - in the union of the spirit of man with the Spirit of God.
men thinking church
The Church has surrendered her once lofty concept of God and has substituted for it one so low, so ignoble, as to be utterly unworthy of thinking, worshiping men. This she has not done deliberately, but little by little and without her knowledge; and her very unawareness only makes her situation all the more tragic.
men thinking mind
Were we able to extract from any man a complete answer to the question, "What comes into your mind when you think about God?" we might predict with certainty the future of that man.
men storm church
I would like to live to see the time when the men and woman of God - holy, separated and spiritually enlightened - walk out of the evangelical church and form a group of their own; when they get off the sinking ship and let her go down in the brackish and worldliness and form a new ark to ride out the storm.