Quotes about Manner
This some call the "grace of prayer" that is given us by the Holy Ghost, as I suppose improperly, though I will not contend about it; for prayer absolutely and formally is not a peculiar grace distinct from all other graces that are exercised in it, but it is the way and manner whereby we are to exercise all other graces of faith, love, delight, fear, reverence, self-abasement, and the like, unto certain especial ends.
— John Owen
It isn't about what you do, but how you do it
— John Wooden
Observe, farther, how the same doctrine is taught by St. Peter: "As He which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation." [1 Pet. i. 15]
— William Law
To ACCUMB (ACCU'MB) v.a.[accumbo, Lat.] To lie at the table, according to the ancient manner.Dict. ACCUMBENT (ACCU'MBENT) adj.[accumbens, Lat.]Leaning. The Roman recumbent, or, more properly, accumbent posture in eating, was introduced after the first Punic war.Arbuthnoton Coins.
— Samuel Johnson
For somewhere He has spoken about the seventh day in this manner: “And on the seventh day God rested from all His works.”
— Hebrews 4:4
Human manners are wildly inconsistent; plenty of people have said so. But this one takes the cake: the manner in which we're allowed to steal from future generations, while commanding them not to do that to us, and rolling our eyes at anyone who is tediously PC enough to point that out. The conspicious consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spirtual error, or even bad manners.
— Barbara Kingsolver
But everything must be done in a proper and orderly manner.
— 1 Corinthians 14:40
It will be perceived that he had a peculiar manner of his own of judging things: I suspect that he obtained it from the Gospel.
— Victor Hugo
the Holy Spirit is the author of this work in us, so that although it is our duty, it is his grace and strength whereby it is performed; as also the manner how it is wrought by him, which is principally intended: [1.]
— John Owen
so that you may walk in a manner worthy of the Lord and may please Him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God,
— Colossians 1:10
A creature, considered as such, has no rights. He can demand nothing from his Maker; and in whatever manner he may be treated, has no title to complain.
— AW Pink
It is a novel constructed like a poem, where each character is only exceptional because if the hyperbolic manner in which he represents generality.
— Victor Hugo