Quotes about Humanity

God loves people because of who God is, not because of who we are.

Thunderously, inarguably, the Sermon on the Mount proves that before God we all stand on level ground: murderers and temper-throwers, adulterers and lusters, thieves and coveters. We are all desperate, and that is in fact the only state appropriate to a human being who wants to know God. Having fallen from the absolute Ideal, we have nowhere to land but in the safety net of absolute grace.

Love deems this world worth rescuing.

Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.

Stand up, on this Thanksgiving Day, stand upon your feet. Believe in man. Soberly and with clear eyes, believe in your own time and place. There is not, and there never has been a better time, or a better place to live in.

If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing.

Where I once believed people were there to be used, I started thinking of other people first.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

We save the world by being alive ourselves.

Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?

Our actual ultimate root is in our humanity, not in our personal genealogy.

We are all reflexes of the image of the Bodhisattva. The sufferer within us is that divine being.