Kirby Page: Man

Kirby Page was American clergyman. Explore interesting quotes on man.

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“So great has been man's progress that today all civilized nations have their great universities, with highly trained specialists, who devote a lifetime to the study of some minute detail of a particular department. His ideas have become so extended and complex that hundreds of thousands of words are necessary to give expression to his thoughts, and libraries with millions of volumes contain only a fraction of his written convictions. …the knowledge of the average man on the street is incomparably higher than that of the eminent scholar of a few centuries ago.”

Source: Something More, A Consideration of the Vast, Undeveloped Resources of Life (1920), p. 28

“The tragedy of tragedies is that man continues to live in poverty when he might have riches, in weakness when he might have strength, in sorrow when he might have joy, in despair when he might have hope.”

Source: Something More, A Consideration of the Vast, Undeveloped Resources of Life (1920), p. 75

“At every stage Jesus was confronted with the necessity of choosing. More and more clearly he saw the vast gulf between his ideal and the practices of those about him. In moments of exaltation he caught a vision of life as it ought to be and might be. …From each succeeding experience of communion with God the conviction became more intense that love alone can bring reconciliation between man and man, and between man and God.”

Source: Jesus or Christianity: A Study in Contrasts (1929), p. 31

“The troubles are much more deep-rooted because of the inherent difficulties confronting a man who seeks to conduct his business on an ideal basis within an unjust social order.”

Individualism and Socialism (1933)

“Non-resistance in the sense of rejecting all forms of coercion is not always a legitimate expression of love toward man and love toward God. …the refusal under some circumstances to exercise forcible restraint is a betrayal of love and therefore a betrayal of higher religion.”

Individualism and Socialism (1933)