30,129 Quotes About Men

It is only God who creates. Man merely rearranges.

Future contingents cannot be certain to us, because we know them as such. They can be certain only to God whose understanding is in eternity above time. Just as a man going along a road does not see those who come after him; but the man who sees the whole road from a height sees all those who are going along the road at the same time.

Greed is a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, in as much as man condemns things eternal for the sake of temporal things,

When fear is excessive it can make many a man despair.

A man should remind himself that an object of faith is not scientifically demonstrable, lest presuming to demonstrate what is of faith, he should produce inconclusive reasons and offer occasion for unbelievers to scoff at a faith based on such ground.

Devotion is a certain act of the will by which man gives himself promptly to divine service.

The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it.

It is a sin directly against one's neighbour, since one man cannot over-abound in external riches, without another man lacking them.

If a man deliberately abstains from wine to such an extent that he does serious harm to his nature, he will not be free from blame.