Quotes about Humanity

Bonhoeffer was constantly trying to correct the idea of a false choice between God and humanity, or heaven and earth. God wanted to redeem humanity and to redeem this earth, not to abolish them.

God wants to see human beings, not ghosts who shun the world. In the whole of world history there is only one real significant hour ... the present ... if you want to find eternity, you must serve the times.

He and his allies declared that every human being was equal in God's sight and made in the image of God, and must therefore be treated with equal dignity.

What Wilberforce vanquished was something even worse than slavery, something that was much more fundamental and can hardly be seen from where we stand today: he vanquished the very mind-set that made slavery acceptable and allowed it to survive and thrive for millennia.

We who are sometimes obsessed with social conscience can no longer imagine a world without it, or a society that regards the suffering of the poor and others as the "will of God.

Human beings were taken from the earth and don't just consist of thin air and thoughts.

The suppression of the Slave Trade and the reformation of manners.

To be human is to be beautifully flawed

Everyone in the world worth being nice to. Because God never creates inferior human beings, each person deserves respect and dignity.

I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it sis my duty ... This is my highest and best use as a human.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.

God sent Jesus as an example to see if we could retain and maintain the Holy Spirit in human flesh.