Quotes About Man

Possibly the most famous quote in all of Orthodox theology comes from Athanasius (c. 293–373), who in his book, On the Incarnation, wrote of Christ, "For he was made man so that we might become God.

Sorry wrong room. (Prior exits, goes to Belize.) PRIOR (Despairing): He's the Marlboro Man. BELIZE: Oooh, I wanna see.

Only a female could be as calculating and have the foresight that destiny requires,' the gypsy explained. 'Now fate is a man,' he went on, 'no planning, just go with the flow and see what tomorrow brings.

If my beloved were a king, I couldst not love him more. Were he a jester to make men laugh, My love I would implore. But, alas, my love is but a man, Of heart and soul so free. And I couldst no more break my vow, Than break the heart in me.

I'm quick enough to criticize and lecture the poor man. Praise should be just as quick to come when the right course is chosen.

I heard voices outside our front door - a woman's, bright as polished brass, and a man's, low and dark like the wood of the table I was working on. They were the kind of voices we heard rarely in our house. I could hear rich carpets in their voices, books and pearls and fur.

But we are in the age of the mediocre man. He is dull, colorless, boring—but inevitably victorious.

It is a truism of American politics that no man who can win an election deserves to.

But Jesus also wanted to demonstrate that a convincing argument rarely results in a changed heart. Hearts aren't transformed through well-rehearsed speeches; they're transformed when they see the truth and power of God demonstrated through a humble man or woman of God.

For me taking part in the decay of present-day man is an entertaining task and the only one that interests me.

Han?" "Yeah, sweetie." "How do you teach a man not to be a noble, long-suffering, self-sacrificing idiot?" "I don't know, sweetie. Mostly I shoot them." "I'll consider that.

It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us.

Rested, shaved, coffee'd, steaked, you will be a different man.

What nonsense you do talk, to be sure,' said Stephen. 'What "balls", as you sea-officers say: it is a matter of common observation that a man may be sincerely attached to two women at once – to three, to four, to a very surprising number of women. However,' he said, 'no doubt you know more of these things than I.

I am not what would ordinarily be called a dressy man, as you are aware; but I should not have presented myself here in the utmost degree of squalor . . .' 'No, no ... '. . . had it not been a matter of some urgency. Though,' he murmured, looking at his cuff, 'this was quite a good shirt, some years ago.

He derives a greater pleasure from a smaller stream of wit than any man I have ever known.

Nothing, as Milton observes, profits a man like proper self-esteem:

Perhaps I am no great judge of what is honourable, sir,' said Dillon. 'I speak as a mere fighting man.

It is unjust to provoke a man and then to complain he is a satyr if the provocation succeeds. You

The key question, it seemed to him, was that of whether man was to obey Nature, or attempt to command her.

There is a deep truth in this conception of Mara as Varsavarti. It means that the selfishness of man is Satan and the actual satisfaction of selfishness is Hell.

peculiarly interesting sect of gnostics is called the Ophites, or serpent worshippers. The demiurge (so they hold), on recognising the danger that might result from the emancipation of man

What is particularly clear is that these Satanists seek to remove God from the center of the universe and replace God with man—akin to communists' goals. To repeat, as Whittaker Chambers said of communists' first and most fundamental ambition: Ye shall be as gods.

When he got to the shoe putting-on stage he called Hosain again. Putting on and taking off his own shoes and boots were activities at which he drew the line if there was a man available to perform these services. He had learned to draw the line in Muzzafirabad where his first CO, Colonel Gawstone, advised him never to stoop if he could help it. The climate wasn't right for it. Mrs. Gawstone had stooped to pick up a glove and keeled right over and never got up. They had buried her the next day.