Quotes about Man
The philosopher says that God's knowledge is the measure of things, and that things are the measure of man's knowledge.
— Jacques Maritain
Adventure, with all its requisite danger and wildness, is a deeply spiritual longing written into the soul of man.
— John Eldredge
Christians believe that true worship is the highest and noblest activity of which man, by the grace of God, is capable.
— John Stott
God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. Genesis 1:27
— Neil Anderson
Nothing discernible to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidable, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul.
— Victor Hugo
Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.
— Victor Hugo
To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. To live without sin is the dream of an angel. Everything terrestrial is subject to sin. Sin is a gravitation.
— Victor Hugo
Not ill? No truly, I am young, healthful, and strong; the blood flows freely in my veins; my limbs obey my will; I am robust in mind and body, constituted for a long life. Yes, all this is true; and yet, nevertheless, I have an illness, a fatal illness,--an illness given by the hand of man!
— Victor Hugo
To be a saint is to be an exception; to be a true man is the rule. Err, fail, sin if you must, but be upright. To sin as little as possible is the law for men; to sin not at all is a dream for angels. All earthly things are subject to sin; if is like the force of gravity.
— Victor Hugo
With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful; if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we kill it. How many men are like nettles... My friends, there is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man. There are only bad cultivators.
— Victor Hugo
Hope is the Word which God has written on the brow of every man.
— Victor Hugo
It may indeed be said that the word is never a more splendid mystery than when it travels in a man's mind from thought to conscience and back again to thought.
— Victor Hugo