Quotes about Man

The devil is very sagacious. To judge by the event, he appears to have understood man better even than the Being who made him.

tell him to stash his tomahawk there, or pipe, or whatever you call it; tell him to stop smoking, in short, and I will turn in with him. But I don't fancy having a man smoking in bed with me.

Why don't ye be sensible, Flask? it's easy to be sensible; why don't ye, then? any man with half an eye can be sensible. I don't know that, Stubb. You sometimes find it rather hard.

A gentle sister is the second best gift to a man.

For what are the comprehensible terrors of man compared with the interlinked terrors and wonders of God!

And what is the will of God?—to do to my fellow man what I would have my fellow man to do to me—that is the will of God.

That lively cry upon this deadly calm might almost convert a better man. Better and better, man. Would now St. Paul would come along that way, and to my breezelessness bring his breeze! O Nature, O soul of man! how far beyond all utterance are your linked analogies! not the smallest atom stirs or lives on matter, but has its cunning duplicate in mind.

The first question of the Westminster Shorter Catechism reads, "What is the chief end of man?" The Catechism's answer: "Man's chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him forever." God graciously linked the pursuit of our chief purpose with our greatest experience of joy.

Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.

Whether he wants it or not, man is the instrument of nature; she imposes on him character and appearance.

Poverty possesses this disease; through want it teaches a man evil.

This room is a testimony that there are men who want to be a man for God and a man of God.