Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens
Alphonse Lamartine
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Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires. Man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divi...
RAMANA MAHARSHI Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far strong...
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.
ADAM WEISHAUPT We need no fanciful teaching regarding the personality of God. What God desires us to know of Him is...
ELLEN G. WHITE The freedom of G-d lies in HIs infinite Nature.
EDWARD WEISS What sweeter gift from nature has fallen to the lot of man than
his children?
UNKNOWN The man who never lends his books probably remembers how he acquired them.
VIKRANT PARSAI By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ...
THOMAS CARLYLE The person, who causes the downfall of a noble woman... who causes loss to his friend...who despite ...
ATHARVA VEDA In Christ was united the human and the divine. His mission was to reconcile God to man, and man to G...
ELLEN G. WHITE You can tell the man who rings true from the man who rings false, not by his deeds alone, but also h...
DEMOCRITUS You can tell the man who rings true from the man who rings false, not by his deeds alone, but also...
DEMOCRITUS A martyrdom is always the design of God, for His love of men, to warn them and to lead them, to brin...
T.S. ELIOT God changes his appearance every second. Blessed is the man who can recognize him in all his disguis...
NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and assoc...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires mo...
JEREMY TAYLOR In consequence of our limited ideas of the sufferings of Christ, we place a low estimate upon the gr...
ELLEN G. WHITE God knows that you are exactly the right person who can fulfill His desires
SUNDAY ADELAJA God authors desires in your heart, then fulfills His Will by enabling you to realize those desires.
EDWIN LOUIS COLE In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that he did not also l...
KONRAD ADENAUER Who stands fast? Only the man whose final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER God’s grace is not infinite. God is infinite, and God is gracious. We experience the grace of an i...
R.C. SPROUL Except God no substance can be granted or conceived. .. Everything, I say, is in God, and all things...
BENEDICT SPINOZA Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen,
Fallen from his high estate,
And welt'ring in his blood;
...
JOHN DRYDEN The heavens declare the glory of God, and the earth is shows his handiwork.
BIBLE The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens...
G. K. CHESTERTON The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens...
G.K. CHESTERTON Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achie...
ERIC BUTTERWORTH If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must tak...
PARACELSUS A god who created man "after his own image", and still the origin of evil in man is not accredited t...
JOHANN MOST The man who has God for his treasure has all things in one.
A.W. TOZER Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher...
SIDNEY HOOK We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul ...
ERNEST SHACKLETON Man's Desires are limited by his Perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived.
WILLIAM BLAKE Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achie...
ERIC BUTTERWORTH Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achie...
THOMAS CARLYLE Commemoration of Thomas à Kempis, priest, spiritual writer, 1471 Every man naturally desir...
THOMAS À KEMPIS Men and women are made for each other, but their mutual dependence differs in degrees; man is depend...
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU If God be an infinite being, there cannot be, either in the present or future world, any relative pr...
BARON D'HOLBACH Christianity set itself the goal of fulfilling man’s unattainable desires, but for that very reaso...
LUDWIG FEUERBACH It is the nature of mortals to kick a fallen man.
AESCHYLUS God, in his infinite wisdom, hid Hell in the middle of Paradise, to keep us on our toes.
PAULO COELHO According to his divine nature Christ is “one in essence” (homoousios) with God the Father; acco...
KALLISTOS WARE The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth
his handywork.
BIBLE No man can see God in this life and live because His glory would annihilate our poor, weak human nat...
MOTHER ANGELICA Today A woman is one who tries to bring a man down. A man is one who has to keep that woman in check...
APURVA GAGLANI Nowhere more truly than in his mental capacities is man a part of nature.
EDWARD THORNDIKE At this day... the earth sustains on her bosom many monster minds, minds which are not afraid to emp...
JOHN CALVIN The life most pleasing to God, is that which is spent in most usefulness to our fellow-creatures. A ...
S. M. M'CORKLE The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling qu...
C.G. JUNG A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
ROBERT FROST A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
UNKNOWN Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.
MARGARET FULLER A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM A man actually has two Gods. The one, created him and the other, he created. Nature is not the first...
THIRUMAN ARCHUNAN What is man in nature? Nothing in relation to the infinite, all in relation to nothing, a mean betwe...
BLAISE PASCAL God is the perfect poet, / Who in his person acts his own creations.
ROBERT BROWNING If history remembers me at all, in any way, I hope it will be as a man who loved the Land of Israel ...
YITZHAK SHAMIR Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the l...
KUO HIS Why does a virtuous man take delight in the landscapes? Because the din of the dusty world and the l...
KUO HIS Look, look,' cried the count, seizing the young man's hands - "look, for on my soul it is curious. H...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS It is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good man.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS The artist ought no more to appear in his work than God in nature.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT God is the one who saved me. He who believes in God, in His cause and His truth is capable of standi...
KING HUSSEIN The god of the Christians, as we have seen, is the god who makes promises only to break them; who se...
JOHANN MOST The wise man sets bounds even to his innocent desires.
UNKNOWN Civilized man has always had a great inclination to read his conceptions and feelings into the mind ...
CARL BUCHER Wealthy is the man who gazes upon the shine his mountain of gold
Brave is the man who saw his last s...
DEVLIN PAJARON God does not lead all His servants by one road, nor in one way, nor at one time; for God is in all t...
JOHN TAULER Anthropology holds up a great mirror to man and lets him look at himself in his infinite variety.
CLYDE KLUCKHOHN All that is limited by form, semblance, sound, color is called object. Among them all, man alone is ...
CHUANG TZU You who have defeated us say to yourselves that Babylon is fallen and its works have been overturned...
FRANK HERBERT Feast of Philip & James, Apostles Here is opened to us the true reason of the whole process of our...
WILLIAM LAW A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
ROBERT FROST The LORD hath prepared his throne in the heavens; and his kingdom ruleth over all.
BIBLE Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but...
LESLIE STEPHEN Man made God in his own image...
ECKHART TOLLE A person whose desires and impulses are his own—are the expression of his own nature, as it has be...
JOHN STUART MILL The perfection of His relation to us swallows up all our imperfections, all our defeats, all our evi...
GEORGE MACDONALD Man is the miracle in nature. God Is the One Miracle to man.
JEAN INGELOW I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies.
ARISTOTLE God touches and moves, warns and desires all equally, and He wants one quite as much as another. The...
JOHANNES TAULER Commemoration of Caroline Chisholm, Social Reformer, 1877 I can see no intellectual objection to ...
DONALD O. SOPER He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounc...
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871 Devo...
WILLIAM LAW The revilement of the infinite in the finite, which is the motive of all creation, is not seen in it...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE How can finite man commune with an infinite God? To both Christians and Jews, God himself has made t...
MEIR SOLOVEICHIK If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.
EPICURUS God made man in his own image, and man returned the favour.
FRANK WEDEKIND I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest vic...
ARISTOTLE I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies, for the hardest vict...
ARISTOTLE I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest vict...
ARISTOTLE A man who claims to be happy with his married life is either pretending or having no proper understa...
ANUJ SOMANY A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craft...
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