Quotes about Humanity
As a human being, one has been endowed with just enough intelligence to be able to see clearly how utterly inadequate that intelligence is when confronted with what exists.
- Albert Einstein
The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the other.... The whole purpose of life is to live by love.
- Thomas Merton
Charity isn't about pity, it is about love.
- Mother Teresa
Of all that Heaven produces and nourishes, there is none so great as man.
- Confucius
We should love others truly, for their own sakes rather than our own.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
With each expression of love, the entire world is touched.
- Ted Andrews
If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love.
- Mark Twain
Sometimes I wonder if we don't see Christ's love as much in the people he tolerated as in the pain he endured.
- Max Lucado
Love has a hem to her garment that reaches to the very dust. It sweeps the stains from the streets and lanes, and because it can, it must.
- Mother Teresa
If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
- Maya Angelou
Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Charity is love; not all love is charity.
- St. Thomas Aquinas