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“So holy and so perfect is my love, And I in such a poverty of grace, That I shall think it a most plenteous crop To glean the broken ears after the man That the main harvest reaps.”

Thinking Men Love Perfect Poverty Grace He Man Broken Holy Ears Harvest Crops Reap

Book:As You Like it

Source: As You Like it

“The man who has been taught by the Holy Spirit will be a seer rather than a scholar. The difference is that the scholar sees and the seer sees through; and that is a mighty difference indeed.”

Men Has Beens Spirit Religion Differences Christianity Taught He Man Holy Holy Spirit Scholar Seers

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“I am perfectly confident that the man who does not spend hours alone with God will never know the anointing of the Holy Spirit.”

Knows Men Doe Spirit Hours He Man Holy Gods Will Holy Spirit Anointing Alone With God

Author:Oswald J. Smith

“A true and safe leader is likely to be one who has no desire to lead, but is forced into a position by the inward pressure of the Holy Spirit and the press of [circumstances]... The man who is ambitious to lead is disqualified as a leader. The true leader will have no desire to lord it over God's heritage, but will be humble, gentle, self-sacrificing and altogether ready to follow when the Spirit chooses another to lead.”

Men Self Spirit Desire Leader Lord Sacrifice Position He Man Ready Circumstances Holy Safe Pressure Presses Humble Gentle Holy Spirit Heritage Ambitious Inward Be Humble True Leader

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“The reflections that the boys of this age are to be the men of the next; that they should be prepared to receive the holy charge which we are cherishing to deliver over to them; that in establishing an institution of wisdom for them, we secure it to all our future generations; that in fulfilling this duty, we bring home to our own bosoms the sweet consolation of seeing our sons rising under a luminous tuition, to destinies of high promise; these are considerations which will occur to all.”

Source: Jefferson: Writings

“The holy man was the whole man, the man of integrity, who not only tried to change the world, but to live in it as it was.”

Men World Whole He Man Integrity Holy Changing The World Holy Man Man Of Integrity

Author:Dorothy Day

“But the man and woman of seventy assume to know all, they have outlived their hope, they renounce aspiration, accept the actual for the necessary and talk down to the young. Let them then become organs of the Holy Ghost; let them be lovers; let them behold truth; and their eyes are uplifted, their wrinkles smoothed, they are perfumed again with hope and power.”

Source: The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A bath in Ganges undoubtedly absolves one of all sins; but what does that avail? They say that the sins perch on trees along the banks of the Ganges. No sooner does the man come back from the holy waters that the old sins jump on his shoulders from the trees. The same old sins take possession of him again. He is hardly out of the waters before they fall upon him.”

Men Doe Fall Water Sin Tree He Man Holy Possession Shoulders Baths Holy Water

Author:Ramakrishna

“Holy obedience confounds all bodily and fleshly desires and keeps the body mortified to the obedience of the spirit and to the obedience of one's brother and makes a man subject to all the men of this world and not to men alone, but also to all beasts and wild animals, so that they may do with him whatsoever they will, in so far as it may be granted to them from above by the Lord.”

Men World May Body Spirit Desire Animal Lord Subjects This World He Man Brother Holy Granted Obedience Beast Wild Animal

Book:Writings of Saint Francis of Assisi

Source: Writings of Saint Francis of Assisi

“It is merely the egoism of the man, who wants to bury a woman like a treasure. All attempts at using vows, contracts, and holy ceremonies have failed to bring permanence into the most changeable aspect of changeable human existence, namely love.”

Men Want Humans Existence He Man Holy Aspect Treasure Contracts Ceremony Vow Human Existence Egoism Permanence Venus In Furs

Author:Leopold von Sacher-Masoch