Quotes about Man
I have the immense joy of being man, a member of a race in which God Himself became incarnate.
- Thomas Merton
Magic is that paganistic reversal of the process of religion, in which man, instead of letting himself be used by God for the divine purpose, drags down his god to the level of a tool, which he uses for his own selfish purpose.
- Geerhardus Vos
Redemption reconstructs the relation of man to God.
- Geerhardus Vos
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
- George Bernard Shaw
If there is such a thing as platonic love between a man and a woman it is the result of a profound misunderstanding, a stifling of their true and authentic impulses.
- George Clooney
It is common knowledge that no man that women flock to boasts of his conquests. Those who do, lie.
- Isabel Allende
You are an exceptional man, and it's not just my senility speaking, half the country would agree with me, and the other half doesn't count.
- Isabel Allende
Paul said, I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city.
- Anonymous
Shame arises from the fear of man; conscience from the fear of God.
- Samuel Johnson
It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that, to break a man's spirit is devil's work.
- George Bernard Shaw
So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man. When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.
- George Eliot