Quotes about Humanity

or who is a hunchback or dwarf, or who has an eye defect, a festering rash, scabs, or a crushed testicle.

If a countryman among you becomes destitute and sells himself to you, then you must not force him into slave labor.

So you also must love the foreigner, since you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.

If a fellow Hebrew, a man or a woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you must set him free.

Do not return a slave to his master if he has taken refuge with you.

The most gentle and refined man among you will begrudge his brother, the wife he embraces, and the rest of his children who have survived,

David answered Gad, “I am deeply distressed. Please, let me fall into the hand of the LORD, for His mercies are very great; but do not let me fall into the hands of men.”

Then the men who were designated by name arose, took charge of the captives, and provided from the plunder clothing for the naked. They clothed them, gave them sandals and food and drink, anointed their wounds, and put all the feeble on donkeys. So they brought them to Jericho, the City of Palms, to their brothers. Then they returned to Samaria.

Why were there knees to receive me, and breasts that I should be nursed?

how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!

“Yes, I know that it is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?

For He is not a man like me, that I can answer Him, that we can take each other to court.