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Quotes about Humanity

The stuff it takes to be intimate is authenticity, vulnerability, and a belief that other people are about as good and bad as we are.
- Donald Miller
Jesus had no regard for the lifeboat politics you and I live within every day.
- Donald Miller
I lay there under the stars and thought of what a great responsibility it is to be human.
- Donald Miller
For so much of my life I had been defending Christianity because I thought to admit that we had done any wrong was to discredit the religious system as a whole, but it isn't a religious system, it is people following Christ; and the important thing to do, the right thing to do, was to apologize for getting in the way of Jesus.
- Donald Miller
Perhaps if we stop reducing the text to formulas for personal growth, we can read it as stories of imperfect humans having relations with a perfect God and come to understand the obvious message He is communicating to mankind.
- Donald Miller
A person could read the Bible, not to become smart, but rather to feel that they are not alone, that somebody understands them and love them enough to speak to them, on purpose, in a way that makes a person feel human.
- Donald Miller
I get this feeling sometimes that after the world ends, when God destroys all our buildings and our flags, we will wish we had seen everybody as equal, that we had eaten dinner with prostitutes, held them in our arms, opened up spare rooms for them, and loved them and learned from them.
- Donald Miller
Talking about real life. The thought of not acting pressed on me like a terror. Can we really trust people to love us just as we are? Nobody steps onto a stage and gets a standing ovation for being human. You have to sing or dance or something. I think that's the difference between being loved and making people clap, though. Love can't be earned, it can only be given. And it can only be exchanged by people who are completely true with each other.
- Donald Miller
I suppose building a healthy family is possible. Maybe what children really need is simple. Maybe they just need somebody to show them it's okay to be human.
- Donald Miller
Now people matter.
- Donald Trump
He sins because he is a sinner. Fundamentally, on the inside, man is a sinner, and that accounts for his actions. I am sure that many people in that day said of the Assyrians,
- J. Vernon McGee
The heart of man is the same in every age. The spiritual medicine which it requires is always the same.
- JC Ryle