Quotes About Man

The forceful activating impulse of wrong desire is the greatest enemy to the happiness of man. Roam in the world as a lion of self-control; see that the frogs of weakness don't kick you around." The

God gave freedom to man, and man has misused that freedom; this is the cause of all suffering.

words for doing harm. I have always remembered her counsel and followed it. My boil was surgically treated. A noticeable scar, left by the doctor's incision, is present today. On my right forearm is a constant reminder of the power in man's sheer word.

So long as the soul of man is encased in one, two, or three body-containers, sealed tightly with the corks of ignorance and desires, he cannot merge with the sea of Spirit.

Struggles of the battlefields pale into insignificance here, when man first contends with inward enemies! No mortal foes these, to be overcome by harrowing array of might! Omnipresent, unresting, pursuing man even in sleep, subtly equipped with a miasmic weapon, these soldiers of ignorant lusts seek to slay us all. Thoughtless is the man who buries his ideals, surrendering to the common fate. Can he seem other than impotent, wooden, ignominious?

In Creation it appears that God sleeps in the minerals, dreams in the flowers, awakens in the animals, and in man knows that He is awake.

To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a man.

Fear, tenderness - these emotions were so despised that they could be admitted into consciousness only at the cost of redefining what it meant to be a man.

I looked at him as he turned and walked away and I saw a man who'd learnt nothing and forgotten nothing, a coward without dignity or honour or respect

A flicker of fear, but it faded. The man looked round the room again, as if searching for something, but for something inside himself, Colin thought. For something he ought to feel, and couldn't.

Honor is the presence of God in man.

The narrator analyzes that the maturing, passing away boy within him, had issued me a challenge as he passed the baton to the man in me: He had challenged me to have the courage to become a gentle, harmless man.

The desolate narrowness, the definitive thinness of experience is both the vainglory and the dead giveaway of a provincial man.

I was afforded a glimpse of the marsh at ease, a glimpse of the land at rest from the penetration and mindless barbarisms of man.

But he is dying faster than he should. The better a man is at business, the worse in retirement.

If Man retained faith in God, he might also retain faith in Man. He remembered words which for four months he had not heard, read, or uttered, the most beautiful words in the language - faith and hope.

Song of the Turtle" is a poem that dates back to the Ghanaian period: We lived in freedom Before man appeared: Our world was undisturbed, One day followed the other joyfully. Dissent was never heard. Then man broke into our forest, With cunning and belligerence. He pursued us With greed and envy: Our freedom vanished.

The love between writer and a reader is never celebrated. It can never be proved to exist. But he was the man I loved most. He was the reader for whom I wrote. That's what my writing was. Messages in bottles.

bit to find out what really happened. So do it. I'd like you to investigate Jenkins's death as my private investigator. The Sunset Cove PD is convinced they have their man—or woman, as it turns

Besides, it isn't appropriate for a man to divorce his wife. She should divorce him. – Victor Van Allen

He had qualities, which I had never seen in any other man.

A mere man alone can easily be defeated, but a man alive with the power of God within him is invincible.

He is nothing but a boy—a little boy!" I am afraid I have visualized you as a man.

were a ritual: "He is nothing but a boy—a little boy!" I am afraid I have visualized you as a man. Yet as I see you now, son, crumpled and weary in your cot, I see that you are still a baby. Yesterday you were in your mother's arms, your head on her shoulder. I have asked too much, too much.