Quotes about Humanity

The crown of theseIs made of love and friendship, and sits highUpon the forehead of humanity.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people Living life in peace You may say that I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one I hope someday you'll join us And the world will be as one

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.

The Two Kingdoms view maintains that the kingdom came in Jesus and will come again in Jesus' return, but that it is confined to the church in the period between Jesus' two advents. That view goes against the passages cited above. Clearly, the kingdom has in fact deeply affected human culture over the centuries: in the sciences, the arts, the treatment of orphans and widows, education, and every other area of importance to human beings.

God uses the flawed, the failures, and the imperfect to accomplish His perfect will.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

All by nature are essentially evil, nothing but "flesh"; everything in us is contrary to holiness.

Charnock said, there is "not a moment of a man's life wherein our hereditary corruption doth not belch its froth.

The indifference, callousness and contempt that so many people exhibit toward animals is evil first because it results in great suffering in animals, and second because it results in an incalculably great impoverishment of the human spirit. All education should be directed toward the refinement of the individual's sensibilities in relation not only to one's fellow humans everywhere, but to all things whatsoever.

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.