Quotes about Human nature

Anything we must assume in order to function in the world is part of general revelation. The undeniable facts of experience reflect the created structure of physical nature or human nature, or both.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be. WILLIAM HAZLITT

Human nature, if healthy, demands excitement; and if it does not obtain its thrilling excitement in the right way, it will seek it in the wrong. God never makes bloodless stoics; He makes no passionless saints.

True earnestness is found in obeying God, not in the inclination to serve Him that is born of undisciplined human nature. It is inconceivable, but true nevertheless, that saints are not bringing every project into captivity, but are doing work for God at the instigation of their own human nature which has not been spiritualised by determined discipline.

The Bible says that our core problem, the fundamental reason we do what we do, is sin.

You see, culture isn't the problem, people are.

Rebellion is the inborn tendency to give in to the lies of autonomy, self-sufficiency, and self-focus. It results

The imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth." — GENESIS 8:21

What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?

I am just like you before God; I was also formed from clay.

I said to myself, “As for the sons of men, God tests them so that they may see for themselves that they are but beasts.”

For you know in your heart that many times you yourself have cursed others.