Quotes about Human nature
Oh! how amazing it is that people can talk so much about men's power and goodness, when if God did not hold us back every moment, we should be devils incarnate!
- David Brainerd
You don't love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.
- William Faulkner
Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.
- William Golding
Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn't you? I'm part of you? Close, close, close! I'm the reason why it's no go? Why things are what they are?
- William Golding
I believe in the theoretical benevolence, and the practical malignity of man.
- William Hazlitt
Left to himself, natural man would never come to God.
- William Lane Craig
Deism, therefore, or a Religion of Nature, pretending to make Man good and happy without Christ, or the Son of God entering into Union with the human Nature, is the greatest of all Absurdities.
- William Law
People go around mourning the death of God; it's the death of sssin that bothers me. Without ssin, people aren't people any more, they're just ssoul-less sheep.
- John Updike
No sin which we are capable of committing has ever taken God by surprise for He knew we were just like that.
- Alan Redpath
Thankfully, God's restraining grace keeps even the worst of us from being utterly depraved. The worst people who have ever lived could've been worse.
- Tullian Tchividjian
There are two restraints which God has laid upon human nature, shame and fear; shame is the weaker, and has place only in those in whom there are some reminders of virtue.
- John Tillotson
Of all the doctrines of the Bible none is so offensive to human nature as the doctrine of God's sovereignty.
- JC Ryle