Quotes about Human nature
Deism, therefore, or a Religion of Nature, pretending to make Man good and happy without Christ, or the Son of God entering into Union with the human Nature, is the greatest of all Absurdities.
— William Law
No sin which we are capable of committing has ever taken God by surprise for He knew we were just like that.
— Alan Redpath
Thankfully, God's restraining grace keeps even the worst of us from being utterly depraved. The worst people who have ever lived could've been worse.
— Tullian Tchividjian
There are two restraints which God has laid upon human nature, shame and fear; shame is the weaker, and has place only in those in whom there are some reminders of virtue.
— John Tillotson
Of all the doctrines of the Bible none is so offensive to human nature as the doctrine of God's sovereignty.
— JC Ryle
We need good laws, but no law can change a human heart - only God can do that.
— Shane Claiborne
It is He who gave to this intellectual nature free-will of such a kind, that if he wishes to forsake God his blessedness, misery should forthwith result.
— St. Augustine
If God were to remove all evil from our world (but somehow leave human beings on the planet), it would mean that the essence of 'humanness' would be destroyed. We would become robots.
— Billy Graham
If God wiped out all sources of evil in the world we would no longer be here, the evil is inside us.
— Timothy Keller
Wherefore did he [God] create passions within us, pleasures round about us, but that these rightly tempered are the very ingredients of virtue?
— John Milton
All the goodness I have within me is totally from the Lord alone. When I sin, it is from me and is done on my own, but when I act righteously, it is wholly and completely of God.
— Charles Spurgeon