Worm theology is too high for me. — Jack Miller

We are all fallen creatures and all very hard to live with. — CS Lewis

At this day… the earth sustains on her bosom many monster minds, minds which are not afraid to employ the seed of Deity deposited in human nature as a means of suppressing the name of God. Can anything be more detestable than this madness in man, who, finding God a hundred times both in his body and his soul, makes his excellence in this respect a pretext for denying that there is a God? He will not say that chance has made him different from the brutes; … but, substituting Nature as the architect of the universe, he suppresses the name of God. — John Calvin, The Institutes of the Christian Religion

Man with all his shrewdness is as stupid about understanding by himself the mysteries of God, as an ass is incapable of understanding musical harmony. — Calvin on 1Cor 1:20.

If you think that there is good in everybody, you haven’t met everybody.

He who undertakes to guide men must never lose sight of the fact that they are malicious monkeys…. The folly of the revolution was in aiming to establish virtue on the earth. When you want to make men good and wise, free, moderate, generous, you are led inevitably to the desire of killing them all. — Anatole France(1844-1924)

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody. Mark Twain ,Following the Equator, Chapt. XXX, Vol I

We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm. Winston Churchill

Man, by his Fall into a state of sin, hath wholly lost all ability of will to any spiritual good accompanying salvation; so as a natural man, being altogether averse from that good, and dead in sin, is not able, by his own strength, to convert himself, or to prepare himself thereunto. — Westminster Confession.. Of Free Will

I do not know what the heart of a bad man is like, but I do know what the heart of a good man is like… and it is terrible. Unknown Russian author.

The Human Race has improved everything except the Human Race. — Adlai Stevenson

Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild. — Kant, Immanuel (1724-1804) —

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