Quotes about Humanity

Man would have remained forever lost if God in His infinite mercy had not sent His Son to earth to bridge this gulf.

Man is a moral failure. Our only hope is GOD.

God didn't make Adam and Eve because He was lonely or because He needed someone to love Him in return. God is complete in Himself; He lacks nothing. God's love compelled Him to create [humanity]. His love was expressed in the creation of the human race.

Christ . . . didn't come to treat symptoms. He came to get at the very heart of man's disease.

Until the Good News of Jesus Christ burst onto the human scene, the word love was understood mostly in terms of seeking one's own advantage. Loving the unlovely was incomprehensible A loving God reaching down to sinful humans was unthinkable.

The grace of God has been tested in the crucible of human experience, and has been found to be more than an equal for the problems and sins of humanity.

Our souls set us apart from every other living creature, and that makes us unique. It also makes us fully human.

The human race has the power right now to destroy itself. Jesus Christ is going to save us from ourselves.

The human conscience is often beyond the grasp of a psychiatrist . Humans are helpless to detach themselves from the gnawing guilt of a heart bowed down with the weight of sin. But where humans have failed, God has succeeded.

Modern war is the most highly developed of all sciences. We have perfected our weapons but failed to perfect the men who use them.

The Charter of the United Nations said in its preamble: "We the people determined to save succeeding generations from war..." Can the United Nations save the world from war? The answer is No! It was conceived and created by statesmen who knew little of the significance of the biblical concept of history and the nature of man. When the perspective is wrong, the whole viewpoint will be wrong.

Philosophically, war is an extension of man's struggle with sin and evil in the world.