top of page
"A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Man quotes

"A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint."

"The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations."

"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."

"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others."

"Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves."

"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."

"One declaims endlessly against the passions; one imputes all of man's suffering to them. One forgets that they are also the source of all his pleasures."
Explore more quotes by William Barclay

"There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why."

"In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can."

"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 man who unthinkingly accepts things can never reach."

"When we love anyone with our whole hearts, life begins when we are with that person; it is only in their company that we are really and truly alive."

"We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away."

"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 on going their own way."

"Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross."
bottom of page