Quotes about Man
Saints have to be tough as well as tender because saints are like Christ, and Christ was the toughest and the tenderest man who ever lived.
- Peter Kreeft
In Christ and through Christ man has acquired full awareness of his dignity.
- Pope John Paul II
There is nothing attractive about the gospel to the natural man; the only man who finds the gospel attractive is the man who is convicted of sin.
- Oswald Chambers
To say that God's sovereignty is limited by man's freedom is to make man sovereign.
- RC Sproul
Only by obedience to his genius; only by the freest activity in the way constitutional to him, does an angel seem to arise beforea man, and lead him by the hand out of all the wards of the prison.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, 'Thou must,' The youth whispers, 'I can.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
One could construe the life of man as a great discourse in which the various people represent different parts of speech (the same might apply to states).
- Soren Kierkegaard
The ordinary air fighter is an extraordinary man and the extraordinary air fighter stands as one in a million among his fellows.
- Theodore Roosevelt
By the divine providence [animals] are intended for man's use... Hence it is not wrong for man to make use of them, either by killing or in any other way whatsoever.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Baptism is the Sacrament of Faith. Now, dead faith does not suffice for salvation .. .Therefore, the Sacrament of Baptism cannot give salvation to a man whose will ... expels the form of faith.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. His ruling passion is the love of fame.
- William Hazlitt
That man can interrogate as well as observe nature was a lesson slowly learned in his evolution.
- William Osler