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Quotes About Man

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
~ Walter Savage Landor
After God created the world, He made man and woman. Then, to keep the whole thing from collapsing, He invented humor.
~ Bill Kelly
Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man.
~ Jean Ingelow
The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
~ H. L. Mencken
Who fathoms the Eternal Thought? Who talks of scheme and plan? The Lord is God! He needeth not The poor device of man.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
God made nightButMan made darkness.
~ Spike Milligan
Christmas is based on an exchange of gifts, the gift of God to man - His unspeakable gift of His Son, and the gift of man to God - when we present our bodies a living sacrifice.
~ Vance Havner
The most pressing question on the problem of faith is whether a man as a civilized being can believe in the divinity of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, for therein rests the whole of our faith.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?
~ Eugenio Montale
Reason in man is rather like God in the world.
~ Thomas Aquinas
In Christ, man who made himself God encounters God who made himself man. Unrivaled self-importance and pride encounters unrivaled self-emptying and humility.
~ Christopher West
Religion, to me, is a bureaucracy between man and God that I don't need.
~ Bill Maher
Christianity does not involve the belief that all things were made for man. it does involve the belief that god loves man and for his sake became man and died.
~ C. S. Lewis
Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.
~ Abraham Lincoln
The Bible is clear - God's definition of marriage is between a man and a woman.
~ Billy Graham
The fact of God is necessary for the fact of man. Think God away and man has no ground of existence.
~ A.W. Tozer
What use, after all, is man, if not to teach God His lessons?
~ Peter Shaffer, Amadeus
If we assume that man actually does resemble God, then we are forced into the impossible theory that God is a coward, an idiot and a bounder.
~ H.L. Mencken
Our spiritual history is the history of God-ventriloquists! The truth is that the voice of God is the voice of cunning Man, the ventriloquist's voice!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Woman was merely man's helpmate, a function which pertains to her alone. She is not the image of God but as far as man is concerned, he is by himself the image of God.
~ Saint Augustine
We are bound to earth by desire and also to God, heaven, and the angels. A slave is a slave whether to man, to God, or to angels.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Christ, being man, had to see impurity and denounced it; but God, infinitely higher, does not see iniquity and cannot be angry.
~ Swami Vivekananda