Inspirational Quotes on People

“In our day many people are broad but shallow. Agnosticism, anxiety, and emptiness have gripped much of our world.”

“God can take anything that happens to us—even bad things—and use it to shape us and make us into a better, more Christlike person—if we will let Him.”

“Man is not growing better! Man is not climbing upward. Instead of progress in man himself there is degeneracy—degeneracy of body, mind, and spirit. Man is going downhill.”

“Some of the most miserable people I have ever met have been people who are very popular with the public, but down inside are empty and miserable.”

“Our personalities, our intelligence, and our capabilities are gifts from [God’s] own bountiful hand. If we divert their use for our own profit, we become guilty of selfishness.”

“Man boasts of his nobility, his ideals, and his progress. Man’s goal is imitation, not redemption.”

“I have never met a person who didn’t have problems of some kind. This is why we need one another’s encouragement.”

“People are little creatures with big capacities, finite beings with infinite desires, deserving nothing but demanding all. God made people with this huge capacity and desire in order that He might come in and completely satisfy that desire.”

“If the other person would just do things my way, we could get along,” one says, when the other person is probably thinking the same about us—that leads to conflict. Our deepest problems are within ourselves.”

“Tell me why the gardener trims and prunes his rosebushes, sometimes cutting away productive branches, and I will tell you why God’s people are afflicted. God’s hand never slips.”

“Lying is one of the worst of all sins and can be committed by a thought, word, or deed. Anything that is intended to deceive another person is lying.”

“No area of human life is so full of difficulties and heartaches as relationships. If you listed everything that upset you during the past week, I suspect most had to do with other people. People can be selfless and kind, but they can also be difficult, stubborn, ego-driven, thoughtless, mean, selfish, manipulative. But the problem is not just other people; it’s also ourselves.”

“As men and women seek to find independence from God, they have lost a sense of purpose in life. The worth of human personality is often equated with what we do for a living. However, a person’s occupation, community standing, or bank account is not what is important in God’s eyes.”

“All around you are people who need Christ: your family, your neighbors, people you work with or go to school with every day. Are you praying for them, asking God to open the door of their hearts to His truth?”

“Instead of manipulating [people] for our own purposes, we’d help them achieve what is best for them. We’d also try to see life through their eyes. Treat others the way you would want them to treat you.”

“I have never known a man who received Christ and ever regretted it.”

“The Bible says that God sees two classes of men. He sees the saved and the lost, those who are going to heaven and those who are going to hell.”

“Almost nothing is as complex as the human personality, and no simple formula will ever cover every situation or every relationship.”

“Compared to when I was a boy, we now live in reverse. The people are locked up in their homes at night and criminals are outside on the loose! When I was young, the criminals were locked up and the people were free to move about. That time has passed for many cities.”

“I am becoming aware of the truth that people change people as much as ideas change people.The power of personality is strong . . . often personality is greater than the idea.”