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Men Quotes by Edward McKendree Bounds
- Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still.
- Trouble and prayer are closely related. Trouble often drives men to God in prayer, while prayer is but the voice of men in trouble.
- Men would pray better if they lived better. They would get more from God if they lived more obedient and well-pleasing to God.
- It is only when the whole heart is gripped with the passion of prayer that the life-giving fire descends, for none but the earnest man…
- To say prayers in a decent, delicate way is not heavy work. But to pray really, to pray till hell feels the ponderous stroke, to…
- Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element of prayer. Men must be in earnest when they kneel at God's footstool. Too often we get…
- The possibilities of prayer are found in its allying itself with the purposes of God, for God's purposes and man's praying are the combination of…
- What the Church needs to-day is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but men whom the Holy Ghost…
- That man is the most immortal who has done the most and the best praying. They are God heroes, God's saints, God's servants, God's vicegerents.
- A man can pray better because of the prayers of the past; a man can live holier because of the prayers of the past; the…
- Prayer is the language of a man burdened with a sense of need.
- The men who have done the most for God in this world have been early on their knees. He who fritters away the early morning,…
- God's cause is committed to men; God commits Himself to men. Praying men are the vice-regents of God; they do His work and carry out…
- It is true that Bible prayers in word and print are short, but the praying men of the Bible were with God through many a…
- It is not great talents or great learning or great preachers that God needs, but men great in holiness, great in faith, great in love,…
- Prayer in Jesus' name puts the crowning crown on God, because it glorifies Him through the Son and it pledges the Son to give to…
- That man cannot possibly be called a Christian, who does not pray.
- Pray for 'all men.' We usually pray more for things than we do for men. Our prayers should be thrown across their pathway as they…
- The lazy man does not, will not, cannot pray, for prayer demands energy.
- The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.
- The Holy Ghost does not flow through methods, but through men. He does not come on machinery, but on men. He does not anoint plans,…
- The preachers who gain mighty results for God are the men who have prevailed in their pleadings with God ere venturing to plead with men.
- When we say that prayer puts God to work, it is simply to say that man has it in his power by prayer to move…
- Men who pray are, in reality, the only religious men, and it takes a full-measured man to pray.
- The men to whom Jesus Christ committed the fortunes and destiny of His Church were men of prayer. To no other kind of men has…
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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