#manhood

Men, you'll never be a good groom to your wife unless you're first a good bride to Jesus. ↗

— Timothy Keller

#keller #manhood #marriage #relationships #marriage

Boys, men," she said. "They're all the same. They think that this [their manhood] is something special and they're all so proud of it. They do not know how ridiculous it is. ↗

— Alexander McCall Smith

#men #men

If boys don't learn, men won't know. ↗

— Douglas Wilson

#men #men

Women waste so much time wearing no perfume. As for me, in every step that I have taken in life, I have been accompanied by an exquisite perfume! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#girls #inspirational-life #life-and-living #life-s-journey #perfume

The world has enough women who know how to be smart. It needs women who are willing to be simple. The world has enough women who know how to be brilliant. It needs some who will be brave. The world has enough women who are popular. It needs more who are pure. We need women, and men, too, who would rather be morally right than socially correct. ↗

— Former U.S. Senate Chaplain Peter Marshall

#godly-woman #inspirational #life #womanhood #inspirational

Looking into his eyes, you seemed to see there the yet lingering images of those thousand-fold perils he had calmly confronted through life. A staid, steadfast man, whose life for the most part was a telling pantomime of action, and not a tame chapter of sounds. ↗

— Herman Melville

#manhood #resilience #strength #life

The narrator analyzes that the maturing, passing away boy within him, "had issued me a challenge as he passed the baton to the man in me: He had challenged me to have the courage to become a gentle, harmless man. ↗

— Pat Conroy

#manhood #maturity #courage

Whoever tramples on the plea for justice temperately made in the name of peace only outrages peace and kills something fine in the heart of man which God put there when we got our manhood. ↗

— William Allen White

#god #got #heart #justice #kills

She would make a man of me. She puts strength and courage into me as no one else can. She is unlike any girl I ever saw; there’s no sentimentality about her; she is wise, and kind, and sweet. She says what she means, looks you straight in the eye, and is as true as steel. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#girls #louisa-may-alcott #love #lovers #manhood

She did not date. She did not have time for men. Men were never, ever worth a great amount of energy. She was the kind of woman that looked down on what she called ‘settlers’, women who chose love and fleeting passion that turned to dull, lifeless marriages over a career and independence. ↗

— Mandy Nachampassack-Maloney

#love #womanhood #dating