Quotes about Man
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
Civilization has run on ahead of the soul of man, and is producing faster than he can think and give thanks.
- GK Chesterton
A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Man for all his genius is but an echo of the original Voice, a reflection of the uncreated Light.
- AW Tozer
As a sunbeam perishes when cut off from the sun, so man apart from God would pass back into the void of nothingness from which he first leaped at the creative call.
- AW Tozer
The mind's deepest desire, even in its most elaborate operations, parallels man's unconscious feeling in the face of his universe: it is an insistence upon familiarity, an appetite for clarity.
- Albert Camus
I continue to believe that this world has no ultimate meaning. But I know that something in it has a meaning and that is man, because he is the only creature to insist on having one
- Albert Camus
The gratitude ascending from man to God is the supreme transaction between earth and heaven.
- Albert Schweitzer