Quotes about Man
William Perkins said, "The end of a man's calling is not to gather riches for himself…but to serve God in the serving of man, and in the seeking the good of all men.
— Leland Ryken
Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.
— Henry Ward Beecher
God put in man thought; society, action; nature, revery.
— Victor Hugo
Society does not exist for itself, but for the individual; and man goes into it, not to lose, but to find himself.
— Phillips Brooks
I learned to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of nature, rather than a member of society.
— Henry David Thoreau
Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.
— John Bunyan
Reverence: the spiritual attitude of a man to a god and a dog to a man.
— Ambrose of Milan
On Pride: This sickness is most dangerous when it succeeds in looking like humility. When a proud man thinks he is humble his case is hopeless.
— Thomas Merton
Just as the right relationship with Christ generates a Christian, so the proper relationship with the Holy Spirit breeds a spiritual man.
— Watchman Nee
Christianity . . . sees the necessity for man to have spiritual values and it shows him how to get at those through physical sacraments.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
Terrible as is war, it yet displays the spiritual grandeur of man daring to defy his mightiest hereditary enemy--death.
— Heinrich Heine
The question for the man of sense is: Do we or do we not want to go to hell? And his answer is: No, we don't. And if that's his answer, then he won't have anything to do with any of the politicians. Because they all want to land us in hell.
— Aldous Huxley