Quotes about Man
Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them.
- Mark Twain
Blessed is the man that hath not walked in the way of the Sacramentarians, nor sat in the seat of the Zwinglians, nor followed the Council of the Zurichers.
- Martin Luther
Religion prescribes to every miserable man the means of bettering his condition; nay, it shows him that the bearing of his afflictions as he ought to do, will naturally end in the removal of them.
- Joseph Addison
And to read the Bible without horror, we must undo everything that is tender, sympathizing and benevolent in the heart of man.
- Thomas Paine
If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man.
- Albert Camus
Religion, by teaching man his relationship to God, gives the individual a sense of his own dignity and teaches him to respect himself by respecting his neighbors.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world but you must get at a man through his own religion not through yours.
- George Bernard Shaw
The crux and crisis is that man found it natural to worship, even natural to worship unnatural things
- GK Chesterton
A god who becomes a man shows mercy.A man who becomes a god does not.
- Anonymous
The fact evil exists speaks far more about man than about God. The Bible says God hates sin.
- Dee Henderson
The shiny paint laid on by curiosity's hand has worn off. What thing better can a man know than the love of Christ, which passes knowledge?
- Jim Elliot
Nationalism: One of the effective ways in which the modern man escapes life's ethical problems.
- Reinhold Niebuhr