Pascal
What sort of wonder is man? How monstrous is he? How chaotic, how paradoxical?
Judge of all things, ruler of all beasts, feeble earthworm himself, repository of truth, sinkhole of doubt and error, glory of the world, refuse of the universe. Such is man.
Let us agree that man infinitely transcends man, and that without the aid of faith, man will remain inconceivable to himself.
David
When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars, which you have set in place,
what is man that you are mindful of him,
and the son of man that you care for him?
Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings
and crowned him with glory and honor.
Psalm 8
Solomon
See, this alone I found, that God made man upright, but they have sought out many schemes.
Ecclesiastes 7:29
Paul
… we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest. But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us…
Ephesians 2