Quotes About Man

I see History as a relay race in which one of us, before dropping in his tracks, must carry one stage further the challenge of being a man.

Man was appointed by God to have dominion over the beasts, and everything a man does to an animal is either a lawful exercise or a sacrilegious abuse of an authority by divine right.

The wolf pack will die when scattered by man, lonesome coyote survives.

I wouldn't trust a man who wouldn't try to steal a little.

A small man intoxicated by being allowed to run around with the big, aggressive, powerful boys after so many years as a corduroy-clad peacenik.

It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.

Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.

Most Christians salute the sovereignty of God but believe in the sovereignty of man.

Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin; a bloody man, vicious; a coarse man, vulgar.

I want to know what the difference between the essence of a man and woman is.

Contemporary man has rationalized the myths, but he has not been able to destroy them.

You can't weigh the soul of a man with a bar of pig-iron.

Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

I find something fascinating about the quiet man in the background who has no desire to be the center of attention.

Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods.

I refuse to "look up." Optimism nauseates me. It is perverse. Since man's fall, his proper position in the universe has been one of misery.

The real Tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.

Revelation does not mean man finding God, but God finding man, God sharing His secrets with us, God showing us Himself. In revelation, God is the agent as well as the object.

Sin had no sooner come into the world than God came in grace seeking the sinner, and so from the first question, 'Adam, where art thou?' on to the incarnation, God has been speaking to man.

A man's behavior is the index of the man, and his discourse is the index of his understanding.

The wind is not helpless for any man's need, Nor falleth the rain but for thistle and weed.

In the heart of man, there is a constant conflict between the flesh and the spirit.

Men forsook God, and made carved images of men. Since therefore an image of man was falsely worshipped as God, God became truly Man, that the falsehood might be done away.

The frame of the cave leads to the frame of man.