Quotes
Quotes about Men
The biblical account of Noah's Ark and the Flood is perhaps the most implausible story for fundamentalists to defend. Where, for example, while loading his ark, did Noah find penguins and polar bears in Palestine?
The best of all the preachers are the men who live their creeds.
Measure not men by Sundays, without regarding what they do all the week after.
The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.
It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible.
If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.
I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision.
The church is the great lost and found department.
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
To say nothing of its holiness or authority, the Bible contains more specimens of genius and taste than any other volume in existence.
If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow the teachings of the new, he would be insane.
Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne.
When men have gone so far as to talk as though their idols have come to life, it is time that someone broke them.
The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.
In man's life, the absence of an essential component usually leads to the adoption of a substitute. The substitute is usually embraced with vehemence and extremism, for we have to convince ourselves that what we took as second choice is the best there ever was. Thus blind faith is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves; insatiable desire a substitute for hope; accumulation a substitute for growth; fervent hustling a substitute for purposeful action; and pride a substitute for an unattainable self-respect.
I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.
It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
If the Lord Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon Creation, I should have recommended something simpler.
The world holds two classes of men: intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence.
God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.
For men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.
Fortunately for themselves and for the world, nearly all men are cowards and dare not act on what they believe. Nearly all our disasters come of a few fools having the "courage of their convictions.".
