Quotes about Man

Sometimes it does a chap's heart good to rescue a beautiful woman. Makes him remember why God rescued him.

You know, for all a man's bravado, he needs a woman in his life.

Commerce is of trivial import; love, faith, truth of character, the aspiration of man, these are sacred.

So nigh is grandeur to our dust,So near is God to man,When Duty whispers low, Thou must,The youth replies, I can.

Self-reliance, the height and perfection of man, is reliance on God.

There are two laws discrete,Not reconciled—Law for man, and law for thing.

The literal resurrection of every soul who has lived and died on earth is a certainty, and surely one should make careful preparation for this event. A glorious resurrection should be the goal of every man and woman, for resurrection will be a reality.

In Jesus Christ there is no isolation of man from God or of God from man. Rather, in Him we encounter the history, the dialogue, in which God and man meet together and are together, the reality of the covenant MUTUALLY contracted, preserved, and fulfilled by them. Jesus Christ is in His one Person, as true GOD, MAN'S loyal partner, and as true MAN, GOD'S. He is the Lord humbled for communion with man and likewise the Servant exalted to communion with God.

For if God Himself became man, this man, what else can this mean but that He declared himself guilty of the contradiction against Himself

The very names Kierkegaard, Luther, Calvin, Paul and Jeremiah suggest what Schleiermacher never possessed, a clear and direct apprehension of the truth that man is made to serve God and not God to serve man.

Two points, which are at once gateways and ends, determine and characterize, according to Overbeck, the being of man and of humanity. With the term 'Super-History' (Urgeschichte) or 'creation-history', he designates the one; with the term 'death', the other.

But, even in this concrete relationship to the Son of God become man, this is really something new only in so far as it expresses the revelation of what began to be true with the Incarnation and has never since ceased to be true.