Quotes 781 till 800 of 1479.
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Man appoints, and God disappoints.
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Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.
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Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.
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Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.
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Man is a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
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Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.
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Man is created to be God's deputy on earth and it is important to realize the obligation to rid ourselves of all illusions and to make our lives a preparation for the next life.
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Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.
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Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself; and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.
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Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.
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Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, but God never will.
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Man proposes, but God disposes.
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Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
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Man who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!
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Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.
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Many churches of all persuasions are hiring research agencies to poll neighborhoods, asking what kind of church they prefer. Then the local churches design themselves to fit the desires of the people. True faith in God that demands selflessness is being replaced by trendy religion that serves the selfish.
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Many people pray as if God were a big aspirin pill; they come only when they hurt.
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May God have mercy uppon my enemies, because i won't.
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May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that ''faith'' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?
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Meditation is the most significant because it opens the door for all other significant things: love, prayer, God, light, music, poetry.
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