Quotes about Humanity
For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.
- William Wordsworth
It is my purpose, as one who lived and acted in these days, first to show how easily the tragedy of the Second World War could have been prevented; how the malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous...
- Winston Churchill
If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.
- Winston Churchill
Whether you believe or disbelieve, it is a wicked thing to take away Man's hope.
- Winston Churchill
We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and fellowship that exist among all members of the human race.
- Cicero
What did an invisible God want from a bunch of frail, selfish people? The only thing Landon could figure was that He'd like for them to learn to love and help one another. Why else would they be living on such a difficult planet?
- Cindy Woodsmall
Either humanity, with all its culture, is a means for the unconscious, unreasonable, and purposeless world-power, or it is a means for the glorifying of God.
- Herman Bavinck
The facts are that an essential difference exists between man and beast. Human nature is sui generis; it has its own character and attributes. If this be true, then the common origin of all men is a necessity;
- Herman Bavinck
Culture, therefore, sinks into the background; man must first become a son of God before he can be, in a genuine sense, a cultured being.
- Herman Bavinck
Man can as little make propitiation for his sin as he can forgive it himself. But God can do both, atone and forgive; he can do the one just because he can do the other.
- Herman Bavinck
Openly or secretly all turn back to an inborn disposition, to a religio insita.
- Herman Bavinck
The parallel, rather, is with human language. It is human to have the ability to speak, an essential part of the image of God in us. Nonetheless, concrete language, which exists in countless forms, is not native but acquired; it is learned.
- Herman Bavinck