Quotes about Humanity
Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore, we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
LOVE: He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein
We can cure physical diesases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love
- Mother Teresa
I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.
- Mother Teresa
These concerns (for orphan children in India and elsewhere in the world) are very good, but often these same people are not concerned with the millions that are killed by the deliberate decision of their own mothers. And this is what is the greatest destroyer of peace today, Abortion...For the pregnant women who don't want their children, give them to me.
- Mother Teresa
Love is a fruit in season at all times, and in reach of every hand.
- Mother Teresa
If we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people to not kill each other? Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what they want.
- Mother Teresa
My life is an indivisible whole, and all my activities run into one another and they have their rise in my insatiable love of mankind
- Mahatma Gandhi
Ive learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.
- Maya Angelou
Love has a hem to her garment that reaches the very dust. It sweeps the streets and lanes, and because it can, it must.
- Mother Teresa
We are not our brother's keeper we are our brother and we are our sister. We must look past complexion and see community.
- Maya Angelou
we are emotional, vulnerable and hapless individuals. It is an attack on human potential."12
- Michael Youssef