Quotes about Man

What are the comprehensible terrors of man compared with the interlinked terrors and wonders of God!

Long exile from Christendom and civilization inevitably restores a man to that condition in which God placed him, i.e. what is called savagery.

Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death. (moby dick chap 29 p123)

I leave eternity to Thee; for what is man that he should live out the life-time of his God?

This slavery breeds ugly passions in man.

But what is worship? - to do the will of God - that is worship. And what is the will of God? - to do to my fellow man what I would have my fellow man to do to me - that is the will of God. Now, Queequeg is my fellow man.

and man, though idiotic, and knowing not what he does, yet full of the sweet things of love and gratitude.

Better and better, man. Would now St. Paul would come along that way, and to my breezelessness bring his breeze! O Nature, and O soul of man! how far beyond all utterance are your linked analogies; not the smallest atom stirs or lives on matter, but has its cunning duplicate in mind.

I have striven to be Thine, more than to be this world's, or mine own. Yet this is nothing; I leave eternity to Thee; for what is man that he should live out the lifetime of his God?

The picture of fallen man as given in Scripture is that he knows God but does not want to recognize Him as God.

By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.

A man by his sin may waste himself, which is to waste that which on earth is most like God. This is man's greatest tragedy and God's heaviest grief.