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Men Quotes by William Barclay
- The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist…
- A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.
- If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained to a certainty that the…
- When we accept Christ we enter into three new relationships: (1) We enter into a new relationship with God. The judge becomes the father; the…
- The word grace emphasizes at one and the same time the helpless poverty of man and the limitless kindness of God.
- One of the highest of human duties is the duty of encouragement...It is easy to laugh at men's ideals; it is easy to pour cold…
- A man can be so busy making a living that he forgets to make a life.
- Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.
- So often we have a kind of vague, wistful longing that the promises of Jesus should be true. The only way really to enter into…
- We have a duty to encourage one another. Many a time a word of praise or thanks or appreciation or cheer has kept a man…
- If we are to accept the teaching of Jesus at all, then the only test of the reality of a man's religion is his attitude…
- The essential fact of Christianity is that God thought all men worth the sacrifice of his son.
- Prayer is not flight, prayer is power. Prayer does not deliver a man from some terrible situation; prayer enables a man to face and to…
- Real repentance means that a man has come, not only to be sorry for the consequences of his sin, but to hate sin itself.
- We may not understand how the spirit works; but the effect of the spirit on the lives of men is there for all to see;…
- Christianity does not think of man finally submitting to the power of God, it thinks of Him as finally surrendering to the love of God.…
- The true, the genuine worship is when man, through his spirit, attains to friendship and intimacy with God. True and genuine worship is not to…
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- 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
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- 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