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Human Being

【Nature of Man】We are all made of common clay and that is why we all have the same problems. As someone has well put it, “We’re all made in the same mold-only some are moldier than others.”

【Nature of Man】Remember that man was made out of dust, and when dust gets stuck on itself it only turns into mud.

【Nature of Man】As the old proverb puts it, you can bring a pig into the parlor, but that doesn’t change the pig-though it certainly changes the parlor!

【Nature of Man】Man’s unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an infinite in him which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the finite.—Thomas Carlyle

【Nature of Man】After many years of studying human behavior at one of the finest universities in the world, Harvard psychiatrist Robert Coles remarked, “Nothing I have discovered about the makeup of human beings contradicts in any way what I have learned from the Hebrew prophets such as Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Amos, and from the Book of Ecclesiastes, and from Jesus and the lives of those he touched. Anything that I can say as a result of my research into human behavior is a mere footnote to those lives in the Old and New Testaments.”

【Nature of Man】With the discovery of the atom, everything changed, except for man’s thinking. Because of this, we drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.—Albert Einstein

【Nature of Man】I still struggle with the old Adam, and so do we all. Young Philipp Melanchthon, colleague of Martin Luther, once wrote to Luther and said, “Old Adam is too strong for young Philipp.”

【Value of Man】A man should carry two stones in his pocket. On one should be inscribed, “I am but dust and ashes.” On the other, “For my sake was the world created.” And he should refer to each stone as he needs it.

【Perfection】The closest to perfection a person ever comes is when he fills out a job application form.