Quotes about Men

And I, miserable, believed that more mercy was to be shown to the fruits of the earth than men, for whom they were created.

The gods, if so minded, might mingle with men, so as to see and be seen, hear and be heard.

For men are separated from God only by sins, from which we are in this life cleansed not by our own virtue, but by the divine compassion.

But our sole delight was play; and for this we were punished by those who yet themselves were doing the like. But elder folks' idleness is called "business"; that of boys, being really the same, is punished by those elders; and none commiserates either boys or men.

There is ever a slight suspicion of the burlesque about earnest good men.

But God himself is truth; in propagating which, as men display a greater integrity and zeal, they approach nearer to the similitude of God, and possess a greater portion of his love.

The unstable estimates of men crowd to him whose mind is filled with a truth, as the heaped waves of the Atlantic follow the moon.

He that obstinately denieth the truth before men upon earth, wilfully refuseth his soul's health in heaven.

Nothing makes a man, or a body of men, as mad as the truth. If there is no truth in it, they laugh it off.

Missions is not about sending missionaries, and missions is not about doing missions. Missions is about the communication of truth to men.

Any church that will not accept that it consists of sinful men and women, and exists for them, implicitly rejects the gospel of grace.

All men and women are the people of His caring. All are called to accept the extravagant gift of His grace, for acceptance means simply to turn to God.