Quotes About Man

Advent is a journey towards Bethlehem. May we let ourselves be drawn by the light of God made man.

The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!

Revenge is like a ghost... It takes over every man it touches... Its thirst cannot be quenched... Until the last man standing has fallen.

I felt the comics grew because they became the common man's literature, the common man's art, the common man's publishing.

they go and set up free-will with the heathen philosophers and say that a man's free will is the cause why God chooseth and not another, contrary to all scriptures.

There is much more mystery in the shadow of a man walking on a sunny day, than in all religions of the world.

No enactment of man can be considered law unless it conforms to the law of God

When Jesus performed miracles, he wasn't demonstrating what God can do, but what God can do through a man.

Everything comes from love, all is ordained for the salvation of man, God does nothing without this goal in mind.

The country life is to be preferred, for there we see the works of God; but in cities little else but the works of men. And the one makes a better subject for contemplation than the other.

Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam.

To be entirely safe from the devil's snares the man of God must be completely obedient to the Word of the Lord. The driver on the highway is safe, not when he reads the signs but when he obeys them.

It is only God who creates. Man merely rearranges.

Every man should study conciseness in speaking; it is a sign of ignorance not to know that long speeches, though they may please the speaker, are the torture of the hearer.

I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man.

Youth always tries to fill the void, an old man learns to live with it.

All human history attests That happiness for man, - the hungry sinner! - Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner. ~Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto XIII, stanza 99

The Magi are filled with awe by what they see; heaven on earth and earth in heaven; man in God and God in man; they see enclosed in a tiny body the One whom the entire world cannot contain.

Usually, it is man who attacks; as for me, I defend myself, and I often capitulate.

The Llama is a woolly sort of fleecy hairy goat, with an indolent expression and an undulating throat; like an unsuccessful literary man.

Only God can fully satisfy the hungry heart of man.

I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and tumbling into it

The ugly is very appealing to man. It's instinct. One shrinks from the ugly, yet wants to look at it. There's a devilish fascination in it. We extract pleasure from horror.