Quotes About Human nature

The balance is the penalty of being human: the danger of allowing yourself to feel. For this we walk a narrow path high above rocky ground. On one side we have the descent into animalism, on the other a godhead delusion. Both pulling at us, both tempting. But without these forces tugging at your psyche, stirring it into conflict, you can never love. They awaken us, you see, these warring sides, they arouse our passion.

No: Human beings, by orders of magnitude, remained the most vicious animal on the planet.

Human beings, by orders of magnitude, remained the most vicious animal on the planet.

Then the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil. And now, lest he reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever...”

“Do not be enraged, my lord,” Aaron replied. “You yourself know that the people are intent on evil.

They told me, ëMake us gods who will go before us. As for this Moses who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him!í

The LORD also said to me, “I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people.

Even when they cast for themselves an image of a calf and said, ëThis is your God who brought you up out of Egypt,í and when they committed terrible blasphemies,

Does a wild donkey bray over fresh grass, or an ox low over its fodder?

Even if I were righteous, my mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, it would declare me guilty.

how much less man, who is vile and corrupt, who drinks injustice like water?

I am just like you before God; I was also formed from clay.

The wicked are estranged from the womb; the liars go astray from birth.

We have sinned like our fathers; we have done wrong and acted wickedly.

Sheol and Abaddon lie open before the LORD—how much more the hearts of men!

The leech has two daughters: Give and Give. There are three things that are never satisfied, four that never say, ëEnough!í:

The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?

and lusted after their lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of stallions.

My people are bent on turning from Me. Though they call to the Most High, He will by no means exalt them.

For from within the hearts of men come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,

Jesus ordered them not to tell anyone. But the more He ordered them, the more widely they proclaimed it.

He did not need any testimony about man, for He knew what was in a man.

Has not Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps it. Why are you trying to kill Me?”

“Men, why are you doing this? We too are only men, human like you. We are bringing you good news that you should turn from these worthless things to the living God, who made heaven and earth and sea and everything in them.