Quotes About Man

I am the man, I suffer'd, I was there.

God rested when he had left his creative power to itself in man.

A man needs something, some sense of accomplishment to maintain his sense of human dignity, of his value and worth as a person; even under the most stringent, most repetitious and boring routine, a man seeks something to maintain his sense of dignity and of worth.

until the body fails us, or pains us, or forces itself upon our attention by some little twinge or complete collapse, we tend to take for granted this first and most precious of God's gifts to man or to give it short shrift.

Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.

But if our philosophy tells us that each man is only a small part of the world, that his intelligence catches at best only phases and aspects in a coarse net of ideas, then, when we use our stereotypes, we tend to know that they are only stereotypes, to hold them lightly, to modify them gladly.

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

Aller werdekeit ein füegerinne daz sît ir zewâre, frowe Mâze. ein sælig man, der iuwer lêre hât!

All effort at originality must end either in the quaint or the monstrous. For no man knows himself as an original; he can only believe it on the report of others.

Make no man your idol, for the best man must have faults; and his faults will insensibly become yours, in addition to your own.

Man's thought is always of the punishment that will come to him if he sins. God's thought is always of the glory man will miss if he sins. God's purpose for redemption is glory, glory, glory.

Man is the only creature on earth that can create his own environment. This is because he is the privileged creation of the Great Creator.

Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft... and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.

I like science fiction and physics, things like that. Planets being sucked into black holes, and the various vortexes that create possibility, and what happens on the other side of the black hole. To me it's the microcosmic study of the macrocosmic universe in man, and that's why I'm attracted to it.

What is sanctification? Sanctification is the work of God's free grace, whereby we are renewed in the whole man after the image of God, and are enabled more and more to die unto sin, and live unto righteousness.

If a woman must make a fool of herself, the least a man can do is to let her be one in her own way.

He was some kind of a man... What does it matter what you say about people?" -- Marlene Dietrich's character in Touch Of Evil, originally written by Whit Masterson as Badge Of Evil. One of the best closing sequences you'll see in classical Hollywood

A man without mysticism becomes a monster.

At issue in the Hiss Case was the question whether this sick society, which we call Western civilization, could in its extremity still cast up a man whose faith in it was so great that he would voluntarily abandon those things which men hold good, including life, to defend it.

Experience had taught me that innocence seldom utters outraged shrikes. Guilt does. Innocence is a mighty shield, and the man or woman covered by it, is much more likely to answer calmly: 'My life is blameless. Look into it, if you like, for you will find nothing.' That is the tone of innocence.

Economics is not the central problem of this century. It is a relative problem which can be solved in relative ways. Faith is the central problem of this age. The Western world does not know it, but it already possesses the answer to this problem-but only provided that its faith in God and the freedom He enjoins is as great as Communism's faith in Man.

God has so made the mind of man that a peculiar deliciousness resides in the fruits of personal industry.

Man may be the captain of his fate, but is also the victim of his blood sugar.