Quotes about Humanity
A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.
- Mahatma Gandhi
We live in an imperfect world, and imperfect people surround us every day.
- Joyce Meyer
You can be a follower of Muhammad or Jesus or Buddha or whomever. Always, they said that the most essential factor is to love your neighbor. And to love you.
- Leo Buscaglia
Ask yourself: if that is what Jesus is all about - that is, getting us to love one another - then why did everyone reject him?
- Stanley Hauerwas
In 'Huckleberry Finn,' I have drawn Tom Blankenship exactly as he was. He was ignorant, unwashed, insufficiently fed; but he had as good a heart as ever any boy had.
- Mark Twain
Because you are human, you will continue to make mistakes. Thinking that you should live an error-free life is symptomatic of pride.
- Sarah Young
Your human love is ever so limited, full of flaws and manipulation.
- Sarah Young
A person is a person through other persons.
- Scot McKnight
But humans want to usurp the place of God, making themselves the center of the Story.
- Scot McKnight
This idea, that we are to live in a way that reflects who God is, fills the pages of the New Testament (see 1 John 4:7—12). God's love—seen in sun and rain—is showered on all humans, both "the evil and the good" or "the righteous and the unrighteous," which stands for the "observant" and "nonobservant.
- Scot McKnight
Jesus is infallible and we are not.
- Scot McKnight
Gospels of Sin Management" presume a Christ with no serious work other than redeeming humankind … [and] they foster "vampire Christians," who only want a little blood for their sins but nothing more to do with Jesus until heaven. Dallas
- Scot McKnight