Quotes about Humanity

Plans must be made for men. We cannot think of making men, and binding nature to our designs.

Shame is the deep sense that you are unacceptable because of something you did, something done to you, or something associated with you. You feel exposed and humiliated. Or, to strengthen the language, You are disgraced because you acted less than human, you were treated as if you were less than human, or you were associated with something less than human, and there are witnesses.

You never expected that God himself would, by his representatives, actually come close to unclean people and touch them. The Holy One is not human. The triune God is not human. Don't limit God's character by your expectations of what a decent human king might do. You expect God to reject; he accepts. You expect him to turn away; he turns toward.

When it comes to addictions, we tend to divide humanity into two groups: those who are prone toward addictions and those who aren't. The reality, of course, is very different. All human beings have already fallen into sin.

Obedience to Christ is not a burden to bear. Instead it points the way to being truly human—an unfettered conscience, an unhindered nearness to him, and the pleasure of his hospitality and protection.

The purpose of humanity is to be brought near to God as a holy people.

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love.

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

I don't know the weapons that will be used in the Third World War, but in the Forth men will use wood and stones

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.