The measure of a men’s greatness is not the number of servants he has, but the number of people he serves.
– John Hagee
Service | Men
God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.
– James H. Aughey
Suffering | Holiness | Men
The really great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
– G.K. Chesterton
Men
Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.
– Augustine
Obedience | Men
You cannot make men good by law.
– C.S. Lewis
Good and Evil | Men
Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.
– Martin Luther
Religion | Virtue | Men
There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
– Blaise Pascal
Sin | Righteousness | Men
Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
– Augustine
Philosophy | Men | Nature
All men have happiness as their object: there are no exceptions. However different the means they employ, they aim at the same end.
– Blaise Pascal
Happiness | Men
All men will be Peters in their bragging tongue, and most men will be Peters in their base denial; but few men will be Peters in their quick repentance.
– Owen Feltham
Repentance | The Tongue | Men
Men are never manlier than when they are tender with their children – whether holding a baby in their arms, loving their grade-schooler, or hugging their teenager or adult children.
– R. Kent Hughes
Men | Children
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, its opportunity and freshness, in other pursuits than seeking God will make poor headway seeking Him the rest of the day. If God is not first in our thoughts and efforts in the morning, He will be in the last place the remainder of the day.
– E.M. Bounds
Prayer | Men
All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Temptation | Men
Our seminaries today are turning out dead men.
– Leonard Ravenhill
Education | Men
Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.
– Zig Ziglar
Apathy | Change | Men
The most critical need of the church at this moment is men, bold men, free men. The church must seek, in prayer and much humility, the coming again of men made of the stuff of which prophets and martyrs are made.
– A. W. Tozer
Men | Humility
A good man is kinder to his enemy than bad men to their friends.
– Joseph Hall
Kindness | Enemies | Men
The most virtuous of all men, says Plato, is he that contents himself with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.
– Francois Fenelon
Virtue | Men
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation. It is better be alone than in bad company.
– George Washington
Friendship | Character | Men
Democracy demands that little men should not take big ones too seriously; it dies when it is full of little men who think they are big themselves.
– C.S. Lewis
Politics | Pride | Men
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
– George Washington
Virtue | Men
Many men profess to hate another, but no man owns envy, as being an enmity or displeasure for no cause but another’s goodness or felicity.
– Jeremy Taylor
Envy | Hatred | Men
Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.
– Blaise Pascal
Conversion | The Heart | Men
Two things control men’s nature, instinct and experience.
– Blaise Pascal
Habits | Men
There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.
– Billy Graham
Finances | Men
Men blaspheme what they do not know.
– Blaise Pascal
Ignorance | Men
Here is the manliness of manhood that a man has a good reason for what he does, and has a will in doing it.
– Alexander MacLaren
Men
Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Ignorance | Men
Monkeys are superior to men in this: When a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.
– Assorted Authors
Atheism | Men
The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.
– Blaise Pascal
Apathy | Men
Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.
– Thomas Fuller
Kindness | Revenge | Men
A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.
– Charles Spurgeon
Anger | Men
A man with God is always in the majority.
– John Knox
God | Men
Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.
– Blaise Pascal
Life | Men
We need, men so possessed by the Spirit of God that God can think His thoughts through our minds, that He can plan His will through our actions, that He can direct His strategy of world evangelization through His Church.
– Alan Redpath
The Holy Spirit | Evangelism | Men
Conscience in most men is but the anticipation of the opinions of others.
– Jeremy Taylor
Conscience | Men
The most holy men are always the most humble men; none so humble on earth as those that live highest in heaven.
– James H. Aughey
Humility | Men
Men never think their fortunes too great, nor their wit too little.
– Thomas Fuller
Greed | Men
One great power of sin is that it blinds men so that they do not recognize its true character.
– Andrew Murray
Character | Sin | Men
Some men, like a tiled house, are long before they take fire, but once on flame there is no coming near to quench them.
– Thomas Fuller
Fire | Men
One great power of sin is that it blinds men so that they do not recognize its true character.
– Andrew Murray
Character | Sin | Men
Men are like wine; not good before the lees of clownishness be settled.
– Owen Feltham
Character | Men
Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
– C.S. Lewis
Life | History | Men
When men comfort themselves with philosophy, ’tis not because they have got two or three sentences, but because they have digested those sentences, and made them their own: philosophy is nothing but discretion.
– John Selden
Philosophy | Discretion | Men
Men are born to trouble at first, and exercised in it all their days. There is a cry at the beginning of life, and a groan at its close.
– Assorted Authors
Life | Men
We need, men so possessed by the Spirit of God that God can think His thoughts through our minds, that He can plan His will through our actions, that He can direct His strategy of world evangelization through His Church.
– Alan Redpath
The Holy Spirit | Evangelism | Men
If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don’t want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.
– David Livingstone
Evangelism | Men
Men are more inclined to ask curious questions, than to obtain necessary instruction.
– Assorted Authors
Education | Men
Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst.
– C.S. Lewis
Hypocrisy | Men
Those who please all men at all times ought deservedly to look on themselves with suspicion.
– Assorted Authors
Hypocrisy | Men
God uses lust to impel men to marry, ambition to office, avarice to earning, and fear to faith. God led me like an old blind goat.
– Martin Luther
Lust | Men
All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.
– Thomas a Kempis
Patience | Men
Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them.
– Jeremy Taylor
Happiness | Men
Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good.
– Karl Barth
Good and Evil | Men
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
– G.K. Chesterton
Life | Men
Here is the manliness of manhood that a man has a good reason for what he does, and has a will in doing it.
– Alexander MacLaren
Men
Comparison, more than reality, makes men happy or wretched.
– Thomas Fuller
Happiness | Men
There is no restraining men’s tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity.
– George Washington
Justice | The Tongue | Men
Men would pray better if they lived better. They would get more from God if they lived more obedient and well-pleasing to God.
– E.M. Bounds
Prayer | Obedience | Men
He that resolves to deal with none but honest men, must leave off dealing.
– Thomas Fuller
Honesty | Discretion | Men
Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still.
– E.M. Bounds
Prayer | Men
Men of authority and influence may promote good morals. Let them in their several stations encourage virtue. Let them favor and take part in any plans which may be formed for the advancement of morality.
– William Wilberforce
Morality | Authority | Men
There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue is abhorrent to them, and so inveterately dishonest that theft is to them a master passion. When a human being has reached that stage, there is only one course that can be rationally pursued. Sorrowfully, but remorselessly, it must be recognized that he has become lunatic, morally demented, incapable of self-government, and that upon him, therefore, must be passed the sentence of permanent seclusion from a world in which he is not fit to be at large.
– William Booth
Laziness | Men
By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
– Thomas Aquinas
Life | Men | Liberty
Man’s greatest need is to need.
– Jack Hyles
Men
Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.
– G.K. Chesterton
Life | Men
Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
– G.K. Chesterton
Character | Men
Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.
– Thomas Aquinas
Reasoning | Men
There would be no great men if there were no little ones.
– George Herbert
Character | Men
Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.
– Jeremy Taylor
Truth | Men
Great hopes make great men.
– Thomas Fuller
Hope | Men
A man all wrapped up in himself makes a pretty small package.
– Woodrow Kroll
Men
The real difference between men is energy. A strong will, a settled purpose, an invincible determination, can accomplish almost anything; and in this lies the distinction between great men and little men.
– Thomas Fuller
Perseverance | Men
No books are so legible as the lives of men; no character so plain as their moral conduct.
– James H. Aughey
Morality | Men
One great power of sin is that it blinds men so that they do not recognize its true character.
– Andrew Murray
Character | Sin | Men