Quotes about Humanity
Thou therefore on these Herbs, and Fruits, and Flow'rs Feed first, on each Beast next, and Fish, and Fowl, No homely morsels, and whatever thing The Scyth of Time mows down, devour unspar'd, Till I in Man residing through the Race, His thoughts, his looks, words, actions all infect, And season him thy last and sweetest prey.
- John Milton
This yet I apprehend not, why to those Among whom God will deigne to dwell on Earth So many and so various Laws are giv'n; So many Laws argue so many sins Among them; how can God with such reside?
- John Milton
Welcome to the human race. It is somehow essential to human life as God has ordained it that we can know the final score of yesterday but not tomorrow. It doesn't mean we're condemned to anxiety. It does mean this: If you're looking for certainty, you've chosen the wrong species. You can walk by faith, but not by sight; not down here.
- John Ortberg
God's great, holy joke about the messiah complex is this: Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from it—except one. And he was the Messiah.
- John Ortberg
Even the best of saints, being left to themselves, will quickly appear to be less than men—to be nothing! All our own strength is weakness, and all our wisdom folly.
- John Owen
Two things I recognize, O Lord, in myself: Nature, which Thou hast made; Sin, which I have added.
- Lancelot Andrewes
Have you ever thought that the only ugly things in this Cove are man's fault, while the beautiful things are God's work? Look at those mountains.
- Catherine Marshall
That is what our Fuhrer maintains- that some are more worthy of life than others. Indeed, he asserts that an elite few in the world are worthy of life and procreation. Ask yourself, if you do not believe that to be true why is it not? If this child is not able to contribute to society in the same way you and I are able, does it make her less valuable? How do you know?
- Cathy Gohlke
We make our friends we make our enemies but God makes our next door neighbour.
- GK Chesterton
Someone once told me that everyone deserved to be loved. Even the unlovable? Maybe especially them.
- Glenn Beck
Our current plight is not made inevitable by human nature. What once was could be again—in a new way.
- Gloria Steinem
What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of kinship. Everybody: stars, laborers, Negroes, Jews, Arabs. We are all brothers. Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe.
- Gloria Steinem