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Man Quotes by George MacDonald
- In short, a man must be set free from the sin he is , which makes him do the sin he does .
- God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the…
- I learned that he that will be a hero will barely be a man; that he that will be nothing but a doer of his…
- Except the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ Jesus make a man sick of his opinions, he…
- It is not the high summer alone that is God's. The winter also is His. And into His winter He came to visit us. And…
- It has been well said that no man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is, when tomorrow's burden is added to the…
- No man has the mind of Christ, except him who makes it his business to obey him.
- A man's real belief is that which he lives by. What a man believes is the thing he does, not the thing he thinks.
- It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.
- This is a wise, sane Christian faith: that a man commit himself, his life, and his hopes to God; that God undertakes the special protection…
- The ruin of a man's teaching comes of his followers, such as having never touched the foundation he has laid, build upon it wood, hay,…
- Man's rank is his power to uplift.
- In whatever man does without God, he must fail miserably, or succeed more miserably.
- The perfection of His relation to us swallows up all our imperfections, all our defeats, all our evils; for our childhood is born of His…
- The seed dies into a new life, and so does man.
- In Giving, a man receives more than he gives; and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given.
- God is the God of the animals in a far lovelier way, I suspect, than many of us dare to think, but he will not…
- God never gave man a thing to do concerning which it were irreverent to ponder how the Son of God would have done it.
- God chooses that men should be tried, but let a man beware of tempting his neighbor.
- A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.
- It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down.
- Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would…
- Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.
- Then the Old Man of the Earth stooped over the floor of the cave, raised a huge stone from it, and left it leaning. It…
- I learned that it is better, a thousand-fold, for a proud man to fall and be humbled, than to hold up his head in his…
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- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle