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- The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where…
- It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The…
- Temptations which accompany the working day will be conquered on the basis of the morning breakthrough to God. Decisions, demanded by work, become easier and…
- The church is only the church when it exists for others. To make a start, it should give away all its property to those in…
- I can never know beforehand how God’s image should appear in others. That image always manifests a completely new and unique form that comes solely…
- When one person is struck by the Word, he speaks it to others. God has willed that we should seek and find His living Word…
- The deceit, the lie of the devil consists of this, that he wishes to make man believe that he can live without God's Word. Thus…
- God is in the manger, wealth in poverty, light in darkness, succor in abandonment. No evil can befall us; whatever men may do to us,…
- Consequently there is a need for spiritual vitality. What protection is there against the danger of organisation? Man is once more faced with the problem…
- Unless he obeys, a man cannot believe.
- In the gospels the very first step a man must take is an act which radically affects his whole existence.
- The future of modern society depends much more on the quiet heroism of the very few who are inspired by God. These few will greatly…
- Originally man was made in the image of God, but now his likeness to God is a stolen one. As the image of God man…
- The cross is not the terrible end to an otherwise God-fearing and happy life, but it meets us at the beginning of our communion with…
- The Incarnation is the ultimate reason why the service of God cannot be divorced from the service of man.
- Jesus calls men, not to a new religion, but to life.
- Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at which a man…
- If Jesus Christ is not true God, how could he help us? If he is not true man, how could he help us?
- It is infinitely easier to suffer in obedience to a human command than to accept suffering as free, responsible men.
- Discipleship is not an offer that man makes to Christ.
- When Christ calls a man, he bids him come and die.
- Man no longer lives in the beginning--he has lost the beginning. Now he finds he is in the middle, knowing neither the end nor the…
- It is God's earth out of which man is taken. From it he has his body. His body belongs to his essential being. Man's body…
- If we look more closely, we see that any violent display of power, whether political or religious, produces an outburst of folly in a large…
- The fearful danger of the present time is that above the cry for authority, we forget that man stands alone before the ultimate authority, and…
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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
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — 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
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- 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
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle