A man cannot possibly be an “evangelical” or a “conservative” (or, as he himself would say, simply a Christian) and regard the Cross of Christ as a trifle.
—J. Gresham Machen
I know CHRIST is all in all. Man is nothing: he hath a free will to go to hell, but none to go to heaven, till GOD worketh in him to will and to do after his good pleasure.
—George Whitefield
Men need some kind of external activity, because they are inactive within.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
—William Shakespeare
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
—Marcus Aurelius
What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and wherever it may lead.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Be sure, dear friends, to have as your minister a man who lives with God, and walks with God; a man who leans his head on the bosom of Jesus, and then comes forward and speaks what his Master has whispered right into his ear.”
– Charles Spurgeon
Men willingly believe what they wish.
—Julius Caesar
Every man with a little leisure and enough money for railway tickets, every man, indeed, who knows how to read, has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.
—Aldous Huxley
But men love abstract reasoning and neat systematization so much that they think nothing of distorting the truth, closing their eyes and ears to contrary evidence to preserve their logical constructions.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Man is born free, but is everywhere in chains.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Man is a creature that can get accustomed to anything, and I think that is the best definition of him.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
After four tortured years, more than 400 over life-sized figures, I felt as old and as weary as Jeremiah. I was only 37, yet friends did not recognize the old man I had become.
—Michelangelo
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
—Ernest Hemingway
Eyes and ears are bad witnesses to men having barbarian souls.
—Heraclitus
“There is nobody who can preach the gospel like the man who has experienced its power.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“When the truth of God has broken your heart, and afterwards bound it up; when Christ has so spoken it to you that you have felt the power of it, then you will speak it as men should speak who are ambassadors for God.”
– Charles Spurgeon
He who advances without seeking fame, Who retreats without escaping blame, He whose one aim is to protect his people and serve his lord, The man is a jewel of the Realm.
—Sun Tzu
A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.
—Charles Dickens
The first man who, having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying ‘this is mine’, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Wine and other luxuries have a tendency to enervate the mind and make men less brave in battle.
—Julius Caesar
The more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.
—Plato
It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires, and who can doubt that the interest we have in admitting or denying the reality of the Judgement to come determines the faith of most men in accordance with their hopes and fears.
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.
—Charles Darwin
Nothing is more seductive for a man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
Man is what he wills himself to be.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them
—Plato
All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.
—Plato
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.
—Oscar Wilde