Quotes about Humanity

The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings.

Man is, so to speak, an endless and infinitely varied repetition: and if we know what one man feels, we so far know what a thousand feel in the sanctuary of their being. Our feeling of general humanity is at once an aggregate of a thousand different truths, and it is also the same truth a thousand times told.

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

How would you explain the fact that atheists just know that harming an innocent human being is wrong, and can live good lives, without believing that God is the ultimate source of values and duties? To repeat: Belief in God is not necessary for objective morality; God is.

Left to himself, natural man would never come to God.

One rabbi who survived the camp summed it up well when he said that at Auschwitz it was as though there existed a world in which all the Ten Commandments were reversed. Mankind had never seen such a hell.

Christ alone can save the world, but Christ cannot save the world alone.

7th July, 1871.—I was annoyed by a woman frequently beating a slave near my house, but on my reproving her she came and apologized. I told her to speak softly to her slave, as she was now the only mother the girl had;

Finished a letter for the New York Herald, trying to enlist American zeal to stop the East Coast slave-trade: I pray for a blessing on it from the All-Gracious. [Through a coincidence a singular interest attaches to this entry. The concluding words of the letter he refers to are as follows:—] "All I can add in my loneliness is, may Heaven's rich blessing come down on everyone, American, English, or Turk, who will help to heal the open sore of the world.

God sees us as we are, loves us as we are, and accepts us as we are. But by His grace, He does not leave us as we are.

Allow God to continually soften your heart so that it beats for what his heart beats for - people.

You have never looked in the eyes of someone who does not matter to God.