Quotes about Man
Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
- Mahatma Gandhi
This formation of man from soft clay, and of woman from a hard bone, also illustrated why man was so much more easily reconcilable than woman.
- Alfred Edersheim
So true is it that all sin is ultimately against the Lord; so bitter is the root of self; and so terrible the power of evil in its constantly growing strength, till it casts out all fear of God or care for man.
- Alfred Edersheim
He wanted pain, I saw that in him, and what a man wants he will often manage to find.
- Alice Hoffman
But in battle you cannot tell another when it is his time to enter the World-to-Come, nor is it possible to keep any man in this world when he wishes to leave it behind.
- Alice Hoffman
That was why the Almighty had given us prayer, to distinguish man from animals, to leave the beasts inside of us locked away.
- Alice Hoffman
But they know who Adam is from they own point of view. And for a whole lot longer time ago. And who that? Mr. ______ ast. The first man that was white. Not the first man. They say nobody so crazy they think they can say who was the first man. But everybody notice the first white man cause he was white.
- Alice Walker
There we are informed that He is the father of Jesus, who we invariably see depicted as a white man. He thinks we are born of sin and embody it; he thinks man should have dominion over the earth, which includes land and water, women, animals and children.
- Alice Walker
The discrepancies between Puritan and modern evangelism should prompt us to revert back to the older message where the whole of Scripture is addressed to the whole man.
- Joel Beeke
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
- Edmund Burke
Young man, there is America—which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners; yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.
- Edmund Burke
It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken.
- Anonymous