We must meditate daily, prayerfully, profoundly upon the Word if we are to maintain power. Many a man has run dry through its neglect.
Psalm 1:1-2
—R. A. Torrey
If the devil cannot make a man feel that he is good enough without being saved, then he will tell him he is so bad the Lord will have nothing to do with him.
—D. L. Moody
Spiritual acts for tyrants are worse than bodily ones. A thief will be pardoned sooner than a righteous man who is strong in spirit.
—Hryhorii Skovoroda
Love is a life-giving fire in the human soul, and everything created by man under the influence of this feeling is marked by the seal of life and poetry.
—Taras Shevchenko
“When the heart is fully influenced by God’s Spirit, then the will and the intellect, the memory and the imagination, and everything else which makes up the inward man, comes under cheerful allegiance to the King of kings.”
– Charles Spurgeon
The ordinary man is always doing things, yet many more are left to be done.
—Laozi
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
—Henry Ford
The more a man knows, the less he talks.
—Voltaire
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
—Oscar Wilde
With respect to the death of Christ, there is a great difference betwixt one man and another; he laid down his life for the sheep, he prayed for them, and not for the world.
—John Flavel
Men argue. Nature acts.
—Voltaire
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.
—Isaac Newton
When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself.
—Voltaire
I have great respect for a man who can stand up for what he believes is right against all the world. He who can stand alone is a hero.
—D. L. Moody
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.
—Aldous Huxley
Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gambling is the great leveller. All men are equal – at cards.
—Nikolai Gogol
The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral… Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That’s my idea.
—Nikolai Gogol
I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.
—George Washington
Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.
—Michelangelo
There are occasions when a woman, no matter how weak and impotent in character she may be in comparison with a man, will yet suddenly become not only harder than any man, but even harder than anything and everything in the world.
—Nikolai Gogol
No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.
—Ernest Hemingway
No one can truly recognize the equality of people in life as well as children can. So how criminal it is for adults to teach them that there are kings, rich men & celebrities whom you must respect, and servants, workers and beggars whom you’re allowed to treat with condescension.
—Leo Tolstoy
A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
—Michelangelo
“The law is never honoured by fallen man till he comes from under its condemning rule, and walks by faith, and lives under the covenant of grace.”
– Charles Spurgeon
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
—Marcus Aurelius
We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself..
We know nothing of man, far too little.
His psyche should be studied because we are the origin of all coming evil.
—Carl Jung
We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself..
We know nothing of man, far too little.
His psyche should be studied because we are the origin of all coming evil.
—Carl Jung
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
—George Orwell
Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.
—Thomas Aquinas