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Sir Ewan Cameron of Lochiel (1629–1719) was a legendary Scottish Highland chieftain, famously reputed to have killed the last wolf in Scotland. Known for his fierce leadership and rugged Highland spir...

Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities he does not possess.

Jesus loved manhood so much, that He delighted to honour it; and since it is a high honour, and indeed, the greatest dignity of manhood, that Jesus is the Son of man,”

One looks for an image of man, attempting in a world increasingly dehumanized to realize himself as a man—to act like a responsible moral being, not to drift like a mere thing.

Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.

“Men are still men, and not keyboards of pianos over which the hands of Nature may play at their own sweet will.

Few men have the natural strength to honor a friend's success without envy.

Maleness and femaleness is the fundamental way we carry our relational design. Interestingly, the English word sexuality comes from the Latin word sexus, which means “being divided, cut off, separated...

It is argued that because they believed thoroughly in a just, moral God they could put there faith there and let the smaller insecurities take care of themselves. But I think that because they trusted...

Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intellige...

People today are trying to hang on to the dignity of man, but they do not know how to, because they have lost the truth that man is made in the image of God. . . . We are watching our culture put into...

Most men, indeed, play at religion as they play at games, religion itself being of all games the one most universally played.

A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.

Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.

A young man is so strong, so mad, so certain, and so lost. He has everything and he is able to use nothing.

I’d grown up in a Boston suburb where people’s homes were set behind deep hedges or protected by huge yards and neighbors hardly knew each other. And they didn’t need to: nothing ever happened in my t...

Man is a metaphysical being, an animal that nourishes its life on transcendence.

Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good.

Maleness and femaleness is the fundamental way we carry our relational design. Interestingly, the English word sexuality comes from the Latin word sexus, which means “being divided, cut off, separated...

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it.

The skills have been lost of being present for and in another, and what remains is mistrust and violence.

I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

All men who live only according to their five senses, and seek nothing beyond the gratification of their natural appetites for pleasure and reputation and power, cut themselves off from that charity w...

A man is as big as the things that make him angry.

For men have no taste for (God's power) till they are convinced of their need of it and they immediately forget its value unless they are conditionally reminded by awareness of their own weakness.

Father, make of me a crisis man. Bring those I contact to decision. Let me not be a milepost on a single road; make me a fork, that men must turn one way or another on facing Christ in me.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.