Quotes about Man
I learned to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of nature, rather than a member of society.
- Henry David Thoreau
Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.
- John Bunyan
Reverence: the spiritual attitude of a man to a god and a dog to a man.
- Ambrose of Milan
On Pride: This sickness is most dangerous when it succeeds in looking like humility. When a proud man thinks he is humble his case is hopeless.
- Thomas Merton
Just as the right relationship with Christ generates a Christian, so the proper relationship with the Holy Spirit breeds a spiritual man.
- Watchman Nee
Christianity . . . sees the necessity for man to have spiritual values and it shows him how to get at those through physical sacraments.
- Malcolm Muggeridge
Love may be the ultimate solution to all man's difficulties, problems and travails.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Terrible as is war, it yet displays the spiritual grandeur of man daring to defy his mightiest hereditary enemy--death.
- Heinrich Heine
The question for the man of sense is: Do we or do we not want to go to hell? And his answer is: No, we don't. And if that's his answer, then he won't have anything to do with any of the politicians. Because they all want to land us in hell.
- Aldous Huxley
I felt, even at fifteen, that God meant man to be happy, that He meant to provide him with what he needed to maintain life in order to be happy, and that we did not need to have quite so much destruction and misery as I saw all around and read of in the daily press.
- Dorothy Day
Man's insulting God is not reversed by our insulting man.
- Sinclair Ferguson
The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower