Quotes about Humanity

Sometimes, the people who make a difference are not the ones with the credentials, but the ones with the concern.

God's love never ceases. Never. Though we spurn him. Ignore him. Reject him. Despise him. Disobey him. He will not change. Our evil cannot diminish his love. Our goodness cannot increase it. Our faith does not earn it anymore than our stupidity jeopardizes it. God doesn't love us less if we fail or more if we succeed. God's love never ceases.1

A person is worth something simply because he is a person.

Jesus did not enter the world to help us save ourselves. He entered the world to save us from ourselves.

Guilt is God's idea. He uses it the way highway engineers use rumble strips. When we swerve off track, they call us back. Guilt does the same. It leaves us more alive, more concerned, more sensitive, more reverant, more human, more passionate,more responsible.

Jesus was not a godlike man, nor a manlike God. He was God-man.

Jesus wept" (John 11:35).

Behind the frantic expressions on the faces of humanity is unresolved regret.

Since he bore the sin of the murderer and adulterer, he felt the shame of the murderer and adulterer. Though he never lied, he bore the disgrace of a liar. Though he never cheated, he felt the embarrassment of a cheater. Since he bore the sin of the world, he felt the collective shame of the world.

How would that look on a résumé? Joseph Son of Jacob Graduate with honors from the University of Hard Knocks Director of Global Effort to Save Humanity Succeeded

There is something cold about a God who cannot relate to what you and I feel.

How we treat others is how we treat Jesus.