Quotes about Men
There are ways that seem to men to be good, the end whereof is in the depths of hell.
- Thomas Merton
IF you write for God you will reach many men and bring them joy. If you write for men—you may make some money and you may give someone a little joy and you may make a noise in the world, for a little while.
- Thomas Merton
The contemplative is not isolated in himself, but liberated from his external and egotistic self by humility and purity of heart—therefore there is no longer any serious obstacle to simple and humble love of other men.
- Thomas Merton
My true personality will be fulfilled in the Mystical Christ in this one way above all, that through me, Christ and His Spirit will be able to love you and all men and God the Father in a way that would be possible in no one else.
- Thomas Merton
To see how seriously men take things and yet how little their seriousness profits them. Their tragedy makes our mediocrity all the more terrible.
- Thomas Merton
What a dire time to be attracted to men.
- Kathie Lee Gifford
The resolution of good men depends more on the grace of God than on their own wisdom, and they put their whole trust in Him in all their undertakings. Man proposes, but God disposes, and man's destiny is not in his own hands.
- Thomas a Kempis
[God] will not be used as a convenience. Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think they can use the stairs of heaven as a shortcut to the nearest chemist's shop.
- CS Lewis
Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.
- George Bernard Shaw
The difference in men does not lie in the size of their hands, nor in the perfection of their bodies, but in this one sublime ability of concentration: to throw the weight with the blow, to live an eternity in an hour.
- Elbert Hubbard
Men are like stone jugs - you may lug them where you like by the ears.
- Samuel Johnson
Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.
- Livy