Quotes about Man

Every ship sailing the sea of life needs to have the divine Pilot on board; but when storms arise, when tempests threaten, many persons push their Pilot overboard, and commit their bark into the hand of finite man, or try to steer it themselves.

Transgression of the law of God, not the neglect of external, man-made ceremonies, that defiles a man.

A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things. Matthew 12:35.

The Sabbath, especially, was given for the benefit of man and for the honor of God. --Story of Redemption, pg. 141

Man is the religious animal. He is the only religious animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion —- several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat, if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven. Mark Twain

In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.

Man has tended to make himself the measure of all things. But man's measure is too tiny to comprehend My majestic vastness. That is why most people do not see Me at all, even though

Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the man who trusts in Him!

Man has tended to make himself the measure of all things. But man's measure is too tiny to comprehend My majestic vastness. That is why most people do not see Me at all, even though they live and move and have their being in Me.

They set the kindling afire to consume the body of a man who had but one goal—to make the Bible readable for everyone.

Science bestowed immense new powers on man, and at the same time, created conditions which were largely beyond his comprehension.

Not a single right is indestructible: a new might can at any time abolish it, hence, man possesses not a single permanent right. God is Might (and He is shifty, malicious, and uncertain).