Quotes about Man

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

The major heresies of our day are not about God but about man.

since the foe of the human race was vanquished not as by God but as by man, as Pope Leo says

Hence man never desires infinite meat, or infinite drink. . . . But non-natural concupiscence is altogether infinite . . . Hence he that desires riches, may desire to be rich not up to a certain limit but to be simply as rich as possible (I-II,30,4).

This is what God did in the Incarnation. Being became a being, the Subject became an object, God became a man, I AM became a He.

You may search the Word of God but you will never find peace first—it is always "grace and peace" never "peace and grace." They are the Siamese twins of the Bible. You cannot have peace until you first have had grace. A man may search and seek until the end of his life, but until he receives grace through Christ, he can never have peace.

The Father judges no one, but has committed all judgment to the Son... and has given Him authority to execute judgment also, because He is the Son of Man" (John 5:22, 27).

Sin is too great an evil for man to meddle with. His attempts to remove it do but increase it, and his endeavours to approach God in spite of it aggravate his guilt.

We hold it to be true that circular reasoning is the only reasoning that is possible to finite man...We must go round and round a thing to see more of its dimensions and to know more about it, in general, unless we are larger than that which we are investigating. Unless we are larger than God we cannot reason about Him by any other way, than by a transcendental or circular argument.

It simply means that within every man, God has planted a divine desire to fight for righteousness.

My father was not just a man, but a spirit dancer. You have to come with that vibration, and it is not something you can act.

From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.