Quotes about Humanity

As frustrating as people can be, it's hard to find a good substitute.

I've never met anyone who wanted to be a terrorist. They are desperate people.

We are more than a collection of appetites - we are of God.

John 3:6, Jesus says, "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." The flesh does have a kind of life. Every human being is living flesh. But not every human being is living spirit. To be a living spirit, or to have spiritual life, Jesus says, we must be "born of the Spirit.

Every aspect of the way God views and saves sinners is designed to undermine racism and lead to a reconciled and redeemed humanity from every people group in the world.

We humans have never had the resources in ourselves to love each other well across ethnic lines. There is too much selfishness in all of us.

The bloodline of Christ is deeper than the bloodlines of race.

The coming of Jesus was a search-and-save mission. "The Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.

It is not a bad thing to desire our own good. In fact, the great problem of human beings is that they are far too easily pleased. They don't seek pleasure with nearly the resolve and passion that they should. And so they settle for mud pies of appetite instead of infinite delight.

That is not just the story of Israel. It's the story of humanity. It's the story of my life and your life.

Therefore, the reason God seeks our praise is not because He won't be complete until He gets it. He is seeking our praise because we won't be complete until we give it. This is not arrogance. It is love.

It is about the greatness of God, not the significance of man. God made man small and the universe big to say something about himself.