Quotes and Sayings About Men
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At a priesthood meeting... the strongest language in regard to Plural Marriage was used that I ever heard, and among other things it was stated that all men in position who would not observe and fulfill that law should be removed from their places.
-- Abraham H. Cannon -
There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself.
-- Abraham ibn Ezra -
The delight of the Torah is ignited by an inner awareness. A man begins to sense the great tapestry of each letter and point. Every concept and content, every notion and idea, of every spiritual movement, of every vibration, intellectual and emotional, from the immediate and general to the distant and detailed, from matters lofty, spiritual, and ethical according to their outward profile, to matters practical, obligatory, seemingly frightening, and forceful, and at the same time complex and full of content and great mental exertion - all together become known by a supernal holy awareness.
-- Abraham Isaac Kook -
As to the origin of civil Societies or Governments; the Author of our Being, has given Man a Nature to be fitted for, and disposed to Society. It was not good for Man at first to be alone; his nature is social, having various Affections, Propensities and Passions, which respect Society, and cannot be indulged without a social Intercourse.
-- Abraham J. Williams -
Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong. However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man's perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency; that man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced. The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song. Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
Whatever man may stand, whatever he may do, to whatever he may apply his hand - in agriculture, in commerce, and in industry, or his mind, in the world of art, and science - he is, in whatsoever it may be, constantly standing before the face of God. He is employed in the service of his God. He has strictly to obey his God. And above all, he has to aim at the glory of his God.
-- Abraham Kuyper -
Genius is a sovereign power; it forms schools; it lays hold on the spirits of men, with irresistible might; and it exercises an immeasurable influence on the whole condition of human life. This sovereignty of genius is a gift of God, possessed only by his grace. It is subject to no one and is responsible to him alone who has granted it this ascendancy.
-- Abraham Kuyper -
There are two kinds of beauty; there is a beauty which God gives at birth, and which withers as a flower. And there is a beauty which God grants when by His grace men are born again. That kind of beauty never vanishes but blooms eternally.
-- Abraham Kuyper -
Our republican system was meant for a homogeneous people. As long as blacks continue to live with the whites they constitute a threat to the national life. Family life may also collapse and the increase of mixed breed bastards may some day challenge the supremacy of the white man.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction of slavery would bring.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes... A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
You can’t make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me.
-- Abraham Lincoln
