Book of Baruch Quotes

God made the world for the delight of human beings.

God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.

In the early ages, I believe not much thought was given to what man is and what his real functions should be, and what is the real purpose of his life.

God gave men and women work to do in the Garden before the Fall.

The world was no doubt made, that it might be a theatre of the divine glory.

For it was by the Will of God that men were made of a certain bodily shape, were given their natures and their faculties. Whoever destroys His work wages war against God's Creation and God's Will.

What exactly is it that humans do that is specifically human? There has to be something. How odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what makes people people.

As God has not made anything useless in this world, as all beings fulfill obligations or a role in the sublime drama of Creation, I cannot exempt from this duty, and small though it be, I too have a mission to fill, as for example: alleviating the sufferings of my fellowmen.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

In the beginning was the Word. Man acts it out. He is the act, not the actor.

Nature never makes any blunders, when she makes a fool she means it.

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

God invented mankind because he loved silly stories.

Man would be otherwise. That is the essence of the specifically human.

On man when he came into life the Father conferred the seeds of all kinds and the germs of every way of life.

A person cannot approach the divine by reaching beyond the human. To become human, is what this individual person, has been created for.

Man is a physical and spiritual epitome of the Universe.

I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body.

For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image.

Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day.

For conservation to be successful it is necessary to take into consideration that it is a characteristic of man that he can only be relied upon to do anything consistently which is in his own interest. He may have occasional fits of conscience and moral rectitude but otherwise his actions are governed by self-interest. It follows then that whatever the moral reasons for conservation it will only be achieved by the inducement of profit or pleasure.

If I have learned nothing else …, I have thoroughly learned to keep hands off the processes of nature.

All life forms obey Nature's demands—except man, who has found ways of ignoring them.

God made man because he loved to listen to stories.

We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God.