Quotes about Humanity

Among the tragedies of our time is humanity's pursuit of personal peace apart from God's enabling grace. That pursuit takes many forms: material, intellectual, social, even religious; but they all end in futility. When sinners find peace through God's grace, that is beautiful, that is cause for rejoicing! "Grace . . . and peace" is the proper Christian greeting and celebration (v. 2).

Remember, it is not about voting for the perfect candidate - there is no such thing. Presidents are human.

When we deny the poor and the vulnerable their own human dignity and capacity for freedom and choice, it becomes self-denial. It becomes a denial of both our collective and individual dignity, at all levels of society.

Consider all of the possibilities for positive global progress if we utilized nonviolence as the central value of our culture, encompassing our law enforcement and labor practices, which currently include people in numerous nations working for inhumane wages in unhealthy conditions.

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread.

Christ tears away the wall of partition, the self-love, the dividing prejudice of nationality, and teaches a love for all the human family.

Largely, the people driving abolition did it because of what they believed from the Bible.

Out of love for His Father and for us, He allowed Himself to suffer beyond the capacity of mortal man. He told us some of what that infinite sacrifice required of Him.

I have a collective sense of suffering.

For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.

From the time of Adam and Eve, man has tried to escape suffering in any form.

Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.