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Because your own strength is unequal to a task, do not assume it is beyond the powers of man.
— Marcus Aurelius
The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.
— Confucius
Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
— Mahatma Gandhi
This formation of man from soft clay, and of woman from a hard bone, also illustrated why man was so much more easily reconcilable than woman.
— Alfred Edersheim
So true is it that all sin is ultimately against the Lord; so bitter is the root of self; and so terrible the power of evil in its constantly growing strength, till it casts out all fear of God or care for man.
— Alfred Edersheim
He wanted pain, I saw that in him, and what a man wants he will often manage to find.
— Alice Hoffman
But in battle you cannot tell another when it is his time to enter the World-to-Come, nor is it possible to keep any man in this world when he wishes to leave it behind.
— Alice Hoffman
That was why the Almighty had given us prayer, to distinguish man from animals, to leave the beasts inside of us locked away.
— Alice Hoffman
But they know who Adam is from they own point of view. And for a whole lot longer time ago. And who that? Mr. ______ ast. The first man that was white. Not the first man. They say nobody so crazy they think they can say who was the first man. But everybody notice the first white man cause he was white.
— Alice Walker
There we are informed that He is the father of Jesus, who we invariably see depicted as a white man. He thinks we are born of sin and embody it; he thinks man should have dominion over the earth, which includes land and water, women, animals and children.
— Alice Walker
The discrepancies between Puritan and modern evangelism should prompt us to revert back to the older message where the whole of Scripture is addressed to the whole man.
— Joel Beeke
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
— Edmund Burke