Quotes about Man

Love alone brings a human being to full awareness of personal existence. For it is in love alone that man finds room enough to be what he is.

Life is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well.

I fear it's because religion is man's attempt to reach God, and when he feels he has succeeded, he cannot abide anyone else's claim to have done the same.

Seventeenth-century deism constructed a God who created a universe and then walked away to leave it running according to its natural laws and man's devices. Many people today are practical deists.

Andrew Murray wrote, "In creating man with a free will and making him a partner in the rule of the earth, God limited himself. He made himself dependent on what man would do. Man by his prayer would hold the measure of what God could do in blessing" (emphasis added).2

I believe one of our problems in dealing with this subject is that we tend to view the interaction between God and man on the same level as the interaction between man and man.

Ever since his fall in the Garden of Eden, man has listened to his desires more than his reason.

He spat into the ocean and said, "Eat that, galanos. And make a dream you've killed a man.

Man is not much beside the great birds and beasts. Still I would rather be that beast down there in the darkness of the sea.

Pop was her ideal of how a man should be, brave, gentle, comic, never losing his temper, never bragging, never complaining except in a joke, tolerant, understanding, intelligent, drinking a little too much as a good man should, and, to her eyes, very handsome.

Character, not circumstance, make a man.

Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.