Quotes about Man
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
Man was made for the highest activity, which is, in fact, his rest.
— Thomas Merton
There is existing in man, a mass of sense lying in a dormant state. The construction of government ought to be such as to bring forward, by a quiet and regular operation, all that extent of capacity.
— Thomas Paine
Make no man your idol, for the best man must have faults; and his faults will insensibly become yours, in addition to your own.
— Washington Allston
Man's words are mere breath, but the word of the Lord is spirit and life.
— Charles Spurgeon
I consider how little man is, yet, in his own mind, how great. He is lord and master of all things, yet scarce can command anything.
— Edmund Burke