Quotes about Man

But what is worship? - to do the will of God - that is worship. 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. Now, Queequeg is my fellow man.

and man, though idiotic, and knowing not what he does, yet full of the sweet things of love and gratitude.

Better and better, man. Would now St. Paul would come along that way, and to my breezelessness bring his breeze! O Nature, and 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.

I have striven to be Thine, more than to be this world's, or mine own. Yet this is nothing; I leave eternity to Thee; for what is man that he should live out the lifetime of his God?

The picture of fallen man as given in Scripture is that he knows God but does not want to recognize Him as God.

By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.

I prefer my men slightly overweight. Having said that, my ultimate dream man is Jimmy Nail and he's skinny.

A man by his sin may waste himself, which is to waste that which on earth is most like God. This is man's greatest tragedy and God's heaviest grief.

Life is grand, and so are its environments of Past and Future. Would the face of nature be so serene and beautiful if man's destiny were not equally so?

Anything that erodes the fear of God will intensify the fear of man.

Pessimism is a denial of the reality of God and the power man draws from being connected to it.

A man is the origin of his action.