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Man: Quotations from Burning Words

Man is the crowning of history and the realization of poetry, the free and living bond which unites all nature to that God who created it for Himself.— F. GODET

Let us not undervalue the dignity of human nature. Man although fallen, still retains some traces of his primeval glory and excellence - broken columns of a celestial temple, magnificent, even in its ruins.— JOHN MCC. HOLMES

How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful is man ! -— YOUNG

The older I grow and I now stand upon the brink of eternity - the more comes back to me that sentence in the Catechism which I learned when a child, and the fuller and deeper its meaning becomes, "What is the chief end of man? To glorify God and enjoy Him forever."— THOMAS CARLYLE

What a chimera is man! what a confused chaos! what a subject of contradiction! a professed judge of all things, and yet a feeble worm of the earth! the great depositary and guardian of truth, and yet a mere huddle of uncertainty! the glory and the scandal of the universe !— PASCAL

Man has wants deeper than can be supplied by wealth or nature or domestic affections. His great relations are to his God and to eternity. -— MARK HOPKINS

In that vast march, the van forgets the rear; the individual is lost; and yet the multitude is many individuals. He faints and falls and dies; man is forgotten; but still mankind move on, still worlds revolve, and the will of God is done in earth and heaven.— G. W. CURTIS

The Divine government of the world is like a stream that rolls under us; men are only as bubbles that rise on its surface; some are brighter and larger, and sparkle longer in the sun than others; but all must break; whilst the mighty current rolls on in its wonted majesty!— DAVID THOMAS

But if, indeed, there be a nobler life in us than in these strangely moving atoms; if, indeed, there is an eternal difference between the fire which inhabits them, and that which animates us, it must be shown, by each of us in his appointed place, not merely in the patience, but in the activity of our hope, not merely by our desire, but our labor, for the time when the dust of the generations of men shall be confirmed for foundations of the gates of the city of God.— JOHN RUSKIN