Quotes about Humanity

There is no man so good, who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life."1 Our deeds are ugly. Our actions are harsh. We don't do what we want to do, we don't like what we do, and what's worse—yes, there is something worse—we can't change.

Allow the spit of the soldiers to symbolize the filth in our hearts. And then observe what Jesus does with our filth. He carries it to the cross.

He spent over three decades wading through the muck and mire of our sin yet still saw enough beauty in us to die for our mistakes.

Don't confuse God's love with the love of people. The love of people often increases with performance and decreases with mistakes. Not so with God's love. He loves you right where you are.

God sent Jesus to tell us he knows what it is like to be a human in this world.

I have a sin nature. So do you.

If there was anything Jesus wanted everyone to understand, it was this: a person is worth something simply because he or she is a person.

Because Jesus is human, he understands you. Because he is divine, he can help you. He is uniquely positioned to carry us home.

Jesus entered our world not like a human but as a human.

The human heart...tells us that we are more alike than we are unalike.

I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at commensurate speed.

People whose history and future were threatened each day by extinction considered that it was only by divine intervention that they were able to live at all. I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.