Quotes About Man

A man who has no part in the grace of God, cannot keep the commandments of God, or prepare himself, either wholly or in part, to receive grace; but he rests of necessity under the power of sin.

Intelligence is the airport; will power is the airplane; man is the passenger and happiness is the destination!

The power of the river is to flow wildly! The power of the lake is to think calmly! Wise man both flows like a river and thinks lake a lake!

The objective tendency of the Enlightenment, to wipe out the power of images over man, is not matched by any subjective progress on the part of enlightened thinking towards freedom from images.

The admiration of power in others is as common to man as the love of it in himself; the one makes him a tyrant, the other a slave.

What wouldst thou do, old man? Think'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak When power to flattery bows?

The mind of a man is his mastermasterpiece.

The power of ignorance can make a powerful man look powerless

In the most secret heart of every intellectual ... there lies hidden ... the hope of power, the desire to bring his ideas to reality by imposing them on his fellow man.

Your little r changes the status of a single lady 'Ms' into a respectable lady 'Mrs'. Man, you make the difference!

I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives.

Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.

Love is the fruit of prayer ... Patiently abiding in prayer signifies a man's renunciation of himself. Therefore the self-denial of the soul turns into love for God.

Prayer is exhaling the spirit of man and inhaling the spirit of God.

There is nothing a natural man hates more than prayer.

Jesus did not have a value for prayer for prayer's sake. He had a value for the intimate communion between God and man.

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

Man is not to be comprehended as a starting-point, or progress as a goal, without those two great forces , Faith and Love . Prayer is sublime.

God does not reveal information by communication: He reveals Himself by communion. Revelation is a personal meeting of God with man. It is a meeting of mind with mind or person with person.

Heaven is never deaf but when man's heart is dumb.

It is only when the whole heart is gripped with the passion of prayer that the life-giving fire descends for none but the earnest man gets access to the ear of God.

The possibilities of prayer are found in its allying itself with the purposes of God for God's purposes and man's praying are the combination of all potent and omnipotent forces.

The only prayer which a well-meaning man can pray is O ye gods give me whatever is fitting unto me!

Man, made in the image of God, has a purpose - to be in relationship to God, who is there. Man forgets his purpose and thus he forgets who he is and what life means.