Quotes about Humanity
We serve life, not because it is broken, but because it is holy.
- Mother Teresa
Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.
- Albert Schweitzer
As you're rushing through life, take time to stop a moment, look into people's eyes, say something kind, and try to make them laugh!
- Barbara Johnson
Preservation of life is the only true joy.
- Albert Schweitzer
The good news as Jesus preached it is not just about the minimal entrance requirements for getting into heaven when you die. It is about the glorious redemption of human life-your life.
- John Ortberg
As a human being, the way Jesus responded to God in faithful obedience and gave his life in service to other humans-is the pattern for all authentic humanity renewed by the Spirit of God.
- Luke Timothy Johnson
What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure.
- Henri Matisse
We are only living truly human lives just so far as we are labouring to keep God's commandments; no further.
- JI Packer
PAIN was no longer a cause of suffering, but a source of pleasure, Because they were redeeming humanity from its sins. Pain becomes joy, the meaning of life, pleasure.
- Paulo Coelho
Never have I risked my life, or even my comfort, in the service of mankind. Shame on me.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
- Jimmy Carter
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank