Quotes about Man
Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapprov'd, and leave No spot or stain behind. Milton.
— Samuel Johnson
My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
— John Adams
How can a good God appoint cruel people to positions of authority? The answer is simple: God is the originator of the authority, but He is not the author of the cruelty. Man is responsible for his cruel actions, not God. All authority is of God, but not all authority is godly.
— John Bevere
Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.
— John Bunyan
Beyond this, to speak to the river and ask it why it runs, or to the sunshine and inquire of its cheer, or to command the raging storm be silent, this is a delight that saints and angels know which man, exiled from Eden, has lost. We are dumb and deaf in a world given to our dominion.
— John C. Wright
The whole life of man until he is converted to Christ is a ruinous labyrinth of wanderings.
— John Calvin
Any man then who would profit by the Scriptures, must hold first of all and firmly that the teaching of the law and the prophets came to us not by the will of man, but as dictated by the Holy Spirit.
— John Calvin
Can we conceive that man was so placed in the earth as to be ignorant of his own origin, and of the origin of those things which he enjoyed?
— John Calvin
Let us remember, therefore, that will in man is one thing, and the free choice of good and evil another: for freedom of choice having been taken away after the fall of the first man, will alone was left; but so completely captive under the tyranny of sin, that it is only inclined to evil.
— John Calvin
O, man! learn from the precept what you ought to do; learn from correction, that it is your own fault you have not the power; and learn in prayer, whence it is that you may receive the power.
— John Calvin
How detestable, I ask you, is this madness: that man, finding God in his body and soul a hundred times, on this very pretense of excellence denies that there is a God?
— John Calvin
Faith was a gift of God whose main function was to create in man a certain knowledge of God's goodness toward us. The
— John Calvin