Quotes about Human nature

The major heresies of our day are not about God but about man.

not human nature with perfect preternatural gifts such as it was in unfallen Adam.

There—fore what is contrary to human nature is contrary to God's will.

The world thinks men are good and saints are better. Pascal knows men are sinners and saints are miracles.

angelism, confusing man with an angel by denying his likeness to animals, and animalism, confusing man with an animal by denying his likeness to angels.

More accurately stated, man is not both angel and animal because he is neither angel nor animal; he is between angels and animals, a unique rung on the cosmic ladder.

We think we want peace and silence and freedom and leisure, but deep down we know that this would be unendurable to us.

We exploit science to make war because we are warlike creatures.

There are some truths that no one likes to hear, but it is precisely these that we need to pursue if we are to understand where war lives in human nature.

The Bible says a man's heart is desperately wicked, and who can know it? We're all capable of more evil than we realize.

Revelation addresses many issues that have not changed because human nature and God's character have remained constant. It

But that is how men are! Ungrateful and never satisfied. When you don't have them they hate you because you won't; and when you do have them they hate you again, for some other reason. Or for no reason at all, except that they are discontented children, and can't be satisfied whatever they get, let a woman do what she may.