Quotes about Man
Let us remember, therefore, that will in man is one thing, and the free choice of good and evil another: for freedom of choice having been taken away after the fall of the first man, will alone was left; but so completely captive under the tyranny of sin, that it is only inclined to evil.
— John Calvin
O, man! learn from the precept what you ought to do; learn from correction, that it is your own fault you have not the power; and learn in prayer, whence it is that you may receive the power.
— John Calvin
How detestable, I ask you, is this madness: that man, finding God in his body and soul a hundred times, on this very pretense of excellence denies that there is a God?
— John Calvin
Faith was a gift of God whose main function was to create in man a certain knowledge of God's goodness toward us. The
— John Calvin
Error can never be eradicated from the heart of man until the true knowledge of God has been implanted in it.
— John Calvin
It is a horrible thing to pour out seed besides the intercourse of man and woman. Deliberately avoiding the intercourse, so that the seed drops on the ground, is double horrible. For this means that one quenches the hope of his family, and kills the son, which could be expected, before he is born.
— John Calvin
The sum is, that man cannot claim a single particle of righteousness to himself, without at the same time detracting from the glory of the divine righteousness.
— John Calvin
It is also to be noticed, that the old man is distinguished by his works, as a tree is by its fruits.
— John Calvin
Man's nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols.
— John Calvin
The question that preoccupied the Fathers was not to know if God existed or not - the existence of God was a "given" for nearly all men of this period, Christians or pagans. The question which tormented entire generations was rather: *how* he existed. And such a question had direct consequences as much for the Church as for man, since both were considered as 'images of God'.
— John Zizioulas
God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man's grave is his Sabbath.
— John Donne
O miserable condition of man, which is not imprinted by God, who, as he is immortal himself, had put a coal, a beam of immortality into us, which we might have blown into a flame, but blew it by our first sin; we beggared ourselves by hearkening after falses riches, and infatuated ourselves by hearkening after false knowledge.
— John Donne