Quotes about Man

The knowledge of the cross brings a conflict of interest between God who has become man and man who wishes to become God.

God became man that dehumanized men might become true men. We become true men in the community of the incarnate, the suffering and loving, the human God.

The true reason why faith is given such an exclusive place by the New Testament, so far as the attainment of salvation is concerned, over against love and over against everything else in man...is that faith means receiving something, not doing something or even being something. To say, therefore, that our faith saves us means that we do not save ourselves even in slightest measure, but that God saves us.

If Jesus is not God, then there is no Christianity, and we who worship Him are nothing more than idolaters. Conversely, if He is God, those who say He was merely a good man, or even the best of men, are blasphemers. More serious still, if He is not God, then He is a blasphemer in the fullest sense of the word. If He is not God, He is not even good.

For a man of his age, fifty-two, divorced, he has, to his mind, solved the problem of sex rather well.

Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub.

It is conceded by all that man is the very highest type of all living creatures on the earth. His intelligence is far superior to that of any other earthly being.

All of creation, in the biblical view, was to ultimately prepare the way for the creation of man. But one does not need the Bible alone to hold this view. A purely scientific reading of the universe is in keeping with this view. Everything - every natural and physical law - is exquisitely tuned to produce life, and ultimately man, on earth.

The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.

Worldly wisdom thinks that love is a relationship between man and man. Christianity teaches that love is a relationship between man-God-man, that is, that God is the middle term.

When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults.

The childhood shows the man as morning shows the day. Be famous then by wisdom; as thy empire must extend, so let extend thy mind o'er all the world.