Quotes about Man
The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in His divinity, assumed our nature, so that He, made man, might make men gods.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Cursed is everyone who places his hope in changing the nature of man
— St. Augustine
...in the third epoch the divinity of man's creative nature is finally revealed and divine power becomes human power.
— Nikolai Berdyaev
Man is closer to God according to his existence in grace than he is according to his existence in nature.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Education makes a greater difference between man and man than nature has made between man and brute.
— John Adams
On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life, Musing in solitude, I oft perceive Fair trains of images before me rise, Accompanied by feelings of delight Pure, or with no unpleasing sadness mixed.
— William Wordsworth
The law of nature gives a man the right to defend himself when he's attacked. And God's law itself gives a man the right to defend himself when he's attacked.
— Malcolm X
Why should a man have any apprehension about the change and dissolution of all the elements? For it is according to nature, and nothing is evil which is according to nature.
— Marcus Aurelius
Patience ornaments the woman and proves the man.
— Tertullian
Patriotism is usually the refuge of the scoundrel. He is the man who talks the loudest.
— Mark Twain
If a wicked man seems to have peace at death, it is not from the knowledge of his happiness, but from the ignorance of his danger.
— Thomas Watson
Any manipulation of the Scriptures to make them speak peace to the natural man is evil and can only lead to ruin.
— AW Tozer