Quotes about Man
The greatness of man cannot be seen in the hours of comfort and convenience, but rather in moments of conflict/adversity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The very beginning of Genesis tells us that God created man in order to give him dominion over fish and fowl and all creatures. Of course, Genesis was written by a man, not a horse.
- Milan Kundera
No unemployment insurance can be compared to an alliance between a man and a plot of land.
- Henry Ford
I believe that marriage is not just a bond but a sacred bond between a man and a woman.
- Hillary Clinton
It is too little to call man a little world; Except God, man is a diminutive to nothing.
- John Donne
The natural man "cannot see or discern that divine excellency in the Scripture, without an apprehension whereof no man can believe it aright to be the word of God."
- John Owen
There are two basic restrictions on marriage in the Bible: Number one, she should marry a man. Number two, he should be a Christian.
- John Piper
Worship is ultimate, not missions. Because God is ultimate, not man.
- John Piper
Some automatic device clicked in her big brain, and her knees felt weak, and there was a chilly feeling in her stomach. She was in love with this man. They don't make memories like that anymore
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
By the fall a poison was handed to mankind through a woman [Eve], by the Redemption man was given salvation also through a woman [Mary].
- St. Augustine
To every man who faces life with real desire to do his part in everything, I appeal for a study of the Bible.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Sloth is sluggishness of the mind which neglects to begin good...it is evil in its effect, if it so oppresses man as to draw him away entirely from good deeds.
- St. Thomas Aquinas