Quotes about Man

Our love for God will be found to be an illusion, except where it is proven by the test of daily life with our fellow man.

Let a man be what he will, you are to love him. Love is to be the fruit of the Spirit all the day and every day.

which has the power or quality of adding. The additory fiction gives to a great man a larger share of reputation than belongs to him, to enable him to serve some good end or purpose.Arbuthnot'sArt of political Lying.

To correspond to; to suit with. In water face answereth to face: so the heart of man to man.BibleProv.xxvii. 19.7.

Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapprov'd, and leave No spot or stain behind. Milton.

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.

How can a good God appoint cruel people to positions of authority? The answer is simple: God is the originator of the authority, but He is not the author of the cruelty. Man is responsible for his cruel actions, not God. All authority is of God, but not all authority is godly.

Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.

Beyond this, to speak to the river and ask it why it runs, or to the sunshine and inquire of its cheer, or to command the raging storm be silent, this is a delight that saints and angels know which man, exiled from Eden, has lost. We are dumb and deaf in a world given to our dominion.

The whole life of man until he is converted to Christ is a ruinous labyrinth of wanderings.

Any man then who would profit by the Scriptures, must hold first of all and firmly that the teaching of the law and the prophets came to us not by the will of man, but as dictated by the Holy Spirit.

Can we conceive that man was so placed in the earth as to be ignorant of his own origin, and of the origin of those things which he enjoyed?