Quotes about Humanity

The Master lives within everyone. When you give food to the one who is starving, when you give water to the one who is thirsty, when you cover the one who is cold, you give your love to the Master.

Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same -- with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead.

I believe love is what makes the world go round. No matter how old or young, love is why we are here. It is the very essence of one's being.

Get to know the poor in your country. Love them. Serve them.

Until we learn to love others as ourselves, it's difficult to blame broken people who desperately try to affirm themselves when no one else will.

God is never angry for His sake, only for ours.

The honorary duty of a human being is to love.

There is no sin but the lack of love.

There are sufficient and suitable accommodations for all the different sorts of persons that are in the world: for great and small, for high and low, rich and poor, wise and unwise, bond and free, persons of all nations and all conditions and circumstances, for those that have been great sinners as well as for moral livers; for weak saints and those that are babes in Christ as well as for those that are stronger and more grown in grace.

Don Quixote was for Bonhoeffer an important picture of the human condition.

He now began to think of the church as called by God to "stand with those who suffer".

To renounce a full life and its real joys in order to avoid pain is neither Christian nor human.