Quotes about Human nature
The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
- Jeremiah 17:9
Flesh is born of flesh, but spirit is born of the Spirit.
- John 3:6
It is part of the human nature always to judge others very severely and,when the wind turns against us,always to find an excuse for our own misdeeds,or to blame someone else for our mistakes.
- Paulo Coelho
About the nature of human beings. I discovered that confronted by temptation, we will always fall. Given the right circumstances, every human being on this earth would be willing to commit evil.
- Paulo Coelho
The Gospel is so rich, and the salvation purchased by Christ contains so many and diverse benefits, that the most varied needs of men are satisfied by it, and the richest powers of human nature are brought to development.
- Herman Bavinck
This nature is twofold; it includes not only the whole visible world of phenomena which is outside man, but also, in a wider sense, man himself; not his body alone, but his soul also.
- Herman Bavinck
The facts are that an essential difference exists between man and beast. Human nature is sui generis; it has its own character and attributes. If this be true, then the common origin of all men is a necessity;
- Herman Bavinck
Human nature is not an empty notion, no purely abstract conception, but a reality, a particular manner of being, which includes distinctive habits, inclinations, and attributes.
- Herman Bavinck
If there ever is to be a blessed humanity it must be preceded by a radical change in human nature.
- Herman Bavinck
God knows we are subtle creatures who are more than able to use candour to avoid acknowledging our deceptions of others and ourselves.
- Stanley Hauerwas
Can man, created good by God, be made wicked by man?
- Victor Hugo
God's solution to the problem of evil is his Son Jesus Christ. The Father's love sent his Son to die for us to defeat the power of evil in human nature: that's the heart of the Christian story.
- Peter Kreeft