Quotes about Man

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.

It is also to be noticed, that the old man is distinguished by his works, as a tree is by its fruits.

Man's nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols.

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'.

God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man's grave is his Sabbath.

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.

The World is a great Volume, and man the Index of that Booke; even in the Body of Man, you may turne to the whole world.

Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)

The stories of past courage... can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul.

Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.

Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

The child is the father of the man.