Quotes about Man
Faith is to the soul what life is to the body. Prayer is to faith what breath is to life. How a man can live and not breathe is past my comprehension, and how a man can believe and not pray is past my comprehension too.
- JC Ryle
A woman should occasionally be babied enough to show her the man had affection, but beyond that she should be treated firmly. These tough women said that it worked with them. All women, by their nature, are fragile and weak: they are attracted to the male in whom they see strength.
- Malcolm X
The American white man has so thoroughly brainwashed the black man to see himself as only a domestic "civil rights" problem that it will probably take longer than I live before the Negro sees that the struggle of the American black man is international.
- Malcolm X
If unwilling to rise in the morning, say to thyself, 'I awake to do the work of a man.
- Marcus Aurelius
The mind, unconquered by violent passions, is a citadel, for a man has no fortress more impregnable in which to find refuge and remain safe forever.
- Marcus Aurelius
The highest good of man is consciously to work with God for the common good, and this is the sense in which the Stoic tried to live in accord with nature. In the individual it is virtue alone which enables him to do this; as Providence rules the universe, so virtue in the soul must rule
- Marcus Aurelius
The highest good of man is consciously to work with God for the common good, and this is the sense in which the Stoic tried to live in accord with nature.
- Marcus Aurelius
For when the soul is deprived of emotion, what difference is there — I do not say between man and the beasts of the field, but between man and a stock or a stone, or any such thing?
- Cicero
The ways of God are not the ways of man, and they are most emphatically not the ways of woman.
- Margaret Atwood
It's one thing to be a wisecracking precocious teen hanging out with twenty-seven year olds.It's another thing to get in the way of a grown man trying to get laid.
- Tina Fey
The sin of fallen man is this: Man seeks the benefits of God while at the same time fleeing from God Himself.
- RC Sproul
The word grace emphasizes at one and the same time the helpless poverty of man and the limitless kindness of God.
- William Barclay