Quotes about Humanity

With the tongue we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in God’s likeness.

No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God remains in us, and His love is perfected in us.

I have three things I'd like to say today. First, while you were sleeping last night, 30,000 kids died of starvation or diseases related to malnutrition. Second, most of you don't give a shit. What's worse is that you're more upset with the fact that I said shit than the fact that 30,000 kids died last night.

Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each other.

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation.

Anxiety was born in the very same moment as mankind. And since we will never be able to master it, we will have to learn to live with it—just as we have learned to live with storms.

In the beginning there was only a small amount of injustice abroad in the world, but everyone who came afterwards added their portion, always thinking it was very small and unimportant, and look where we have ended up today.

Even God has a hell: his love of Mankind.

Because of that she had never had enough energy to be herself, a person who, like everyone else in the world, needed other people in order to be happy. But other people were so difficult. They reacted in unpredictable ways, they surrounded themselves with defensive walls, they behaved just as she did, pretending they didn't care about anything. When someone more open to life appeared, they either rejected them outright or made them suffer, consigning them to being inferior, ingenuous.

To love is to be in communion with the other and to discover in that other the spark of God.

Christ surrounded himself with beggars, prostitutes, tax-collectors and fishermen. ... what he meant by this was that the divine spark is in every soul and is never extinguished ...

It is the imperfect that astonishes and attracts us.