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Both sexes are equal. Both bear the image of God and are equal in their standing and in their spiritual gifts for service.
— Kent Hughes
Dominion is all about conquest; that's what we're made for. Men live for a cause, and this is the cause-the crusade to which we have been called-to make manifest the reign of Jesus Christ.
— RC Sproul Jr.
Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history, letters, art, and poetry, in all its periods, from the Heroic or Homeric age down to the domestic life of the Athenians and Spartans, four or five centuries later? What but this, that every man passes personally through a Grecian period.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome. They who lived with them found life glad and nutritious. Life is sweet and tolerable only in our belief in such society.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. [...] Who hath access to this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done, for this is the only and sovereign agent.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
the trees are imperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Holiness is pleasing to God, beneficial to men, and essential to the promotion of our own happiness
— Randy Alcorn
Men, he began his address to the officers, measuring his pauses carefully. You're American officers. The officers of no other army in the world can make that statement. Think about it.
— Joseph Heller
Her own body was such a familiar and unremarkable thing to her that she was puzzled by the convulsive ecstasy men could take from it, by the intense and amusing need they had merely to touch it, to reach out urgently and press it, squeeze it, pinch it, rub it. She did not understand Yossarian's lust; but she was willing to take is word for it.
— Joseph Heller