Men Quotes - Page 38

Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.

Good is something you do, not something you talk about. Some medals are pinned to your soul, not to your jacket.

There is one thing you have got to learn about our movement. Three people are better than no people.

Brokenness is God’s requirement for maximum usefulness.

I've come to this belief that, if you show me a woman who can sit with a man in real vulnerability, in deep fear, and be with him in it, I will show you a woman who, A, has done her work and, B, does not derive her power from that man. And if you show me a man who can sit with a woman in deep struggle and vulnerability and not try to fix it, but just hear her and be with her and hold space for it, I'll show you a guy who's done his work and a man who doesn't derive his power from controlling and fixing everything.

The Bible warns us clearly that we must not attack men of God no matter how sinful they may have become or wicked in our eyes.

I love that basketball gives me the opportunities to do good things for people and to point them towards the Man who died for our sins on the cross.

I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across this empty space, whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that is needed for an act of theatre to be engaged.

They that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil.

You can kill a man, but you can't kill an idea.

Jesus did not come into the world to make bad men good. He came into the world to make dead men live!

The Government which attacks its own innocent subjects has no claim to be called a civilised government. Bear in mind, such a government does not survive long. I declare that the blows struck at me will be the last nails in the coffin of the British rule in India.

The general consent of all that sect is that God (by his foreknowledge, counsel, and wisdom) has no assured election, neither yet any certain reprobation, but that every man may elect or reprobate himself by his own free will, which he has (say they) to do good or evil ... [All these things are] forged by their own brains, and polished by the finest of their wits, when yet in very deed they are but the rotten heresies of ... Pelagius, long ago confuted by Augustine.

To conquer himself is the greatest victory that man can gain.

One moment can change a day, One day can change a life and One life can change the world

Sometime in your life, hope that you might see one starved man, the look on his face when the bread finally arrives. Hope that you might have baked it or bought or even kneaded it yourself. For that look on his face, for your meeting his eyes across a piece of bread, you might be willing to lose a lot, or suffer a lot, or die a little, even.

Life's not breaths you take, but the moments that take your breath away.

The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities.

No one else holds or has held the place in the heart of the world which Jesus holds. Other gods have been as devoutly worshipped; no other man has been so devoutly loved.

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself. [It is a matter of choice, not chance.] Such is the first principle of existentialism.

No revolutionary movement is complete without its poetical expression.

The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears or the sea.

I have committed many sins in my life. But stealing money from the government, from the people, is not one of them.

The purpose of architecture is to shelter and enhance man's life on earth and to fulfill his belief in the nobility of his existence.

Don't be worried about the next man - make sure your business tight.