Quotes about Humanity

We are obliged to love one another. We are not strictly bound to "like" one another.

Though we as Christians are like Christ, having the first fruits of the spirit, yet we are unlike him, having the remainders of the flesh.

The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.

The great majority of men use their own short-sighted ideas as a yardstick for measuring the divine omnipotence.

Man must reconcile himself to his natural greatness.... he must not forget that he is a person.

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.

The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles.

Whether you're educated or illiterate, whether you live on the boulevard or in the alley, you're going to catch hell just like I am. We're all in the same boat and we all are going to catch the same hell from the same man. He just happens to be a white man.

As Man alone, Jesus could not have saved us; as God alone, he would not; Incarnate, he could and did.

The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.

Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth; but a good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.

No man who knows aught can be so stupid to deny that all men naturally were born free, being the image and resemblance of God himself.