Dead Men Quotes
53 quotes by 49 authors
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Offerings to propitiate the dead then were regarded as belonging to the class of funeral sacrifices, and these are idolatry. Idolatry, in fact, is a…
— Tertullian
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We have strayed from the Immortal's ways And worship with a dull and senseless mind Idols, the workmanship of our own hands, And images and…
— Justin Martyr
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Dead men never pick up their trophies.
— Michael Weisskopf
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At that moment of realization I knew that I had been blind because I had wished not to see; it was only then that I…
— Ernst Toller
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The lives of people are like young trees in a forest. They are being choked by climbing vines. The vines are old thoughts and beliefs…
— Sherwood Anderson
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The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew it passes into other…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Dead men tell no tales.
— John Dryden
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Jesus did not come into the world to make bad men good. He came into the world to make dead men live!
— Leonard Ravenhill
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Our seminaries today are turning out dead men.
— Leonard Ravenhill
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Congregations are lifeless because dead men preach to them.
— George Whitefield
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The power of God has not in the least bit been diminished over the past 2000 years. Our Lord still sits on His great throne…
— Eric Ludy
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For I am verily persuaded the generality of preachers talk of an unknown and unfelt Christ; and the reason why congregations have been so dead…
— Gilbert Tennent
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I see men assassinated around me every day. I walk through rooms of the dead, streets of the dead, cities of the dead; men without…
— Charles Bukowski
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Words are not in the power of men; men are in the power of words. Every time we open our mouths, a thousand dead men…
— Hermann Bahr
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There's not much a newspaper reporter can do about dead men. But a newspaper reporter and a cop and a judge can deliver some justice.…
— Charlie LeDuff
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What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.
— Ernest Hemingway
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Jesus' death wasn't to free us from dying, but to free us from the fear of death. Jesus came to liberate us so that we…
— Erwin McManus
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Who waite for dead men shall goe long barefoote.
— John Heywood
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I heard that I am crazy for taking this fight but I'm very excited about this chance. His manager is saying that I'm a 'dead…
— Wladimir Klitschko
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Dead men do not cooperate with grace. Unless regeneration takes place first, there is no possibility of faith.
— R C Sproul
Who Wrote These Dead Men Quotes
49 authors contributed a total of 53 Dead Men Quotes, led by these top contributors: