Quotes About Man

The greatest films are those which show how society shapes man. The greatest plays are those which show how man shapes society.

Society does not exist for itself, but for the individual; and man goes into it, not to lose, but to find himself.

Society is the master, and man is the servant.

Every man is a valuable member of society, who, by his observations, researches, and experiments, procures knowledge for men.

No society ever seems to have succumbed to boredom. Man has developed an obvious capacity for surviving the pompous reiteration of the commonplace.

Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.

The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse.

Compared to God, man is nothing; yet we are everything to God.

At the very center of our culture is a crucified man, a tortured man hanging on a cross of wood. You have an image of violence at the very center of our spiritual investigation.

The first act of awe, when man was struck with the beauty or wonder of Nature, was the first spiritual experience.

For what lies inside of man is the whole spiritual cosmos in condensed form. In man's inner organism we have an image of the entire cosmos.

A warrior knows that he is only a man. His only regret is that his life is so short that he can't grab onto all the things he would like to. But for him, this is not an issue; it's only a pity.

Man is a universe within himself.

Reverence: the spiritual attitude of a man to a god and a dog to a man.

The anointing of the Holy Spirit is given to illuminate His Word, to open the Scriptures, and to place the spiritual man in direct communication with the mind of God.

Great truths that are stumbling blocks to the natural man are nevertheless the very foundations upon which the confidence of the spiritual man is built.

Love is qualified as an attribute of that force, power or influence known as God. Thus as man makes application of love in his daily experience, he finds God a personal God.

Conscience is the spiritual, supernatural principle in man, and it is not of social origin at all. It is rather the perversion and confusion of conscience that is of social origin.

On Pride: This sickness is most dangerous when it succeeds in looking like humility. When a proud man thinks he is humble his case is hopeless.

The deeper the Self-realization of a man, the more he influences the whole universe by his subtle spiritual vibrations, and the less he himself is affected by the phenomenal flux.

The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.

Man is a physical and spiritual epitome of the Universe.

The highest spiritual quality, the noblest property of mind a man can have, is this of loyalty.

Just as the right relationship with Christ generates a Christian, so the proper relationship with the Holy Spirit breeds a spiritual man.