Quotes about Men

This world is not a place merely to live in, nor a place in which to do certain kinds of business; it is a great workshop in which to make godly men.

Whatever vices and corruptions men see in the lives of their ministers will not be attributed to the depravity of their old nature which still abides in them, but to the gospel.

By nature, men desire the beautiful.

I thought how little interest the men before me had in the results of the war, and how little knowledge they had of "what it was all about.

Neither of these speculations is unreasonable, and they are mentioned to show how little men control their own destiny.

Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God.

But listen, there will be more joy in heaven over the tears of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men.

Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men touch that unknown thing?

With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful; if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we kill it. How many men are like nettles... My friends, there is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man. There are only bad cultivators.

Happy, even in anguish, is he to whom God has given a soul worthy of love and grief! He who has not seen the things of this world, and the heart of men in this double light, has seen nothing, and knows noting of the truth.

It is wrong to become absorbed in the divine law to such a degree as not to perceive human law. Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men touch that unknown thing?

The cities make ferocious men because they may corrupt man. The mountain, the sea, the forest, make savage men; they development fierce side, but often without destroying the humane side.