Quotes About Man

There is a baptism that belongs to Jesus. It is in His supreme control. No angel or man can bestow it. It comes from Him alone. He it is which baptizeth with the Holy Ghost (John 1:33). So the individual who wants the Holy Spirit must come into definite, conscious contact with Jesus Christ Himself.

Christ is at once the spotless descent of God into man, and the sinless ascent of man into God, and the Holy Spirit is the Agent by whom this is accomplished.

But the Missouri—my brother—is the eternal Fighting Man!

Can you support the expense of a husband, hussy, in gaming, drinking and whoring? Have you money enough to carry on the daily quarrels of man and wife about who shall squander most?

perhaps in actions I'm less of a man - but, oh the words - such lovely words...

He stands out among the beacon lights of history as a man of vision dominated by a definite purpose.

The rain thickened; then slacked, then came down again in floods; the night crackled and roared with change and iron cold. Drunk with coziness, the pup wallowed beside me and groaned, and I remember wondering, before I slept, a little more about the relationship of storms to man … If, being animal, we ring like guitar strings to nature's furies, what hope can there be for our ultimate, planned peacefulness?

Biblical Context Matthew begins to deal with Jesus' mission in Matthew 14—who Jesus came to and who may come to him. The feeding of the five thousand begins this section and shows that the people came to Jesus with needs, which he met. This contrasts with the end of the section (chapter 19) where the rich young man came with wants and was turned away.

Separation from the world is the gateway to spiritual power and blessing. The man who walks with God always reaches his destination!

Lord Bacon said, "Writing makes an exact man." He spoke the truth. Writing produces exactitude by forcing you to set down ideas in logical relation to one another. Writing crystallizes your thoughts and makes your ideas specific.

This was the man God gave us when the hour Proclaimed the dawn of Liberty begun.

Unsettle the mind; destroy the balance. Destroy the balance; obliterate the man.

The loss of wealth is loss of dirt,As sages in all times assert;The happy man's without a shirt.

Kanan thumped his chest. "I'm a man with a mission." "You're an oaf with a delusion.

The New Testament, and to a very large extent the Old, is the soul of man. You cannot criticize it. It criticizes you.

He was a man who longed to do more with his life, to investigate creativity and originality, but was afraid of the disruption this indulgence might bring to a carefully regimented life.

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

Wisdom, itself, is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.

Sometimes when the sky overwhelms the world with crimson, a man becomes the image of himself.

Don't you think I've had enough excitement for one evening, without the additional thrill of a strange man making love to me? (Helen Grosvenor (Zita Johann) to Frank Whemple, who claims to have fallen in love with her at first sight. The Mummy, Universal Studios, 1932)

The evangelical assertion of the new Word was not intended to make man fit into the world, but to verify his isolation

It was the other man Hardy had noticed in the gallery. Reasonably good-looking, somewhat burly even in his tailored suit, Lightner sported a well-trimmed red beard under a head of dark brown hair. It was a striking combination that Hardy thought might come out of a bottle.

I think it will be but a very modest computation to say, that of the products of the earth useful to the life of man, nine-tenths are the effects of labour: nay, if we will rightly estimate things as they come to our use, and cast up the several expenses about them, what in them is purely owing to nature, and what to labour, we shall find, that in most of them ninety-nine hundredths are wholly to be put on the account of labour.

From all which it is evident, that though the things of nature are given in common, yet man, by being master of himself, and " proprietor of his own person, and the actions or labour of it, had still in himself the great foundation of property;" and that which made up the greater part of what he applied to the support or comfort of his being, when invention and arts had improved the conveniencies of life, was perfectly his own, and did not belong in common to others.