Quotes about Humanity
American values are not just about America, but they speak to the human dignity, the God-given spark that resides in each and every person across the world.
- Hillary Clinton
But as a heathen tells us, there is no nation so barbarous, no race so brutish as not to be imbued with the conviction that there is a God.
- John Calvin
The other gods were strong; but thou wast weak; they rode, but thou didst stumble to a throne; But to our wounds only God's wounds can speak, And not a god has wounds, but thou alone.
- John Stott
It is only when human beings see themselves simply as human beings, no longer as gods, that they are in a position to perceive the wholly other nature of God.
- Jurgen Moltmann
Being human means you will make mistakes. And you will make mistakes, because failure is God's way of moving you in another direction.
- Oprah Winfrey
All the goodness I have within me is totally from the Lord alone. When I sin, it is from me and is done on my own, but when I act righteously, it is wholly and completely of God.
- Charles Spurgeon
The perfect surrender and humiliation were undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and humiliation because He was man.
- CS Lewis
A man must be willing to die for justice. Death is an inescapable reality and men die daily, but good deeds live forever.
- Jesse Jackson
The Good News borne by our risen Messiah who chose not one race, who chose not one country, who chose not one language, who chose not one tribe, who chose all of humankind!
- Nelson Mandela
I believe in person to person; every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, that person is only one person in the world for me at that moment.
- Mother Teresa
Without our suffering, our work would simply be social work, very good and helpful, but it would not be the work of Jesus Christ, not part of the Redemption.
- Mother Teresa
When people were hungry, Jesus didn't say, "Now is that political or social?" He said, "I feed you." Because the good news to a hungry person is bread.
- Desmond Tutu