Quotes
Quotes about Man
Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.
Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
The human understanding is no dry light, but receives infusion from the will and affections; which proceed sciences which may be called "sciences as one would." For what a man had rather were true he more readily believes. Therefore he rejects difficult things from impatience of research; sober things, because they narrow hope; the deeper things of nature, from superstition; the light of experience, from arrogance and pride; things not commonly believed, out of deference to the opinion of the vulgar. Numberless in short are the ways, and sometimes imperceptible, in which the affections color and infect the understanding.
Beware of the man of one book.
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window.
You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea.
to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means, to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.
It is easier for a camel to pass through they eye of the needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God.
For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made... [Romans 1:20].
Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within.
O ye powers that search The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts, If I have done amiss, impute it not! The best may err, but you are good.
To err is human; but contrition felt for the crime distinguishes the virtuous from the wicked. [It., D'uomo e il fallir, ma dal malvagio il buono Scerne il dolor del fallo.]
Woman, amends may never come to late.
He [Cato] used to say that in all his life he never repented but of three things. The first was that he had trusted a woman with a secret; the second that he had gone by sea when he might have gone by land; and the third, that had passed one day without having a will by him.
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.
REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is not inconsistent with continuity of sin.
Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.
Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.
It is a maxim to me that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself.
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time.
How many worthy men have we seen survive their own reputations!
My dear dear lord, The purest treasure mortal times afford Is spotless reputation. That away, Man are but gilded loam or painted clay.
A good name, like good will, is go t by many actions and lost by one.
