Quotes about Man

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer—and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.

Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge - it is as immortal as the heart of man.

Coersion, after all, merely captures man. Freedom captivates him.

The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of law.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

The purpose of God and the power of God is available for every man.

For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image.

There is more of power to sanctify, elevate, strengthen, and cheer in the word Jesus (Jehovah-Saviour) than in all the utterances of man since the world began.

The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.

I believe in the theoretical benevolence, and the practical malignity of man.

Man's condition ought to impel him to seek to discover whether there is a God and a solution to his predicament. But people occupy their time and their thoughts with trivialities and distractions, so as to avoid the despair, boredom, and anxiety that would inevitably result if those diversions were removed.